Help with dd needed

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I need to know more to make sure I understand what you want to do.

What is the size of the old drive?
What partitions does it have?
What is on the new drive, if anything?
What partitions do you want the new drive to have?

I know that maybe those questions are redundant to what you already said bu=
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just want to better understand what you are trying to do.

=46inally, are you doing this operation live, right now? Do you have acces=
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an IRC client? We might could do this chatting.

Alan

On Friday 14 November 2003 11:06 pm, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> I have to deal with a win 98 computer that a hard drive that is too
> small/loud. I have a 40 gig drive that I would like to repace the old dri=
ve
> with.
>
> I would like to boot from my BBC linux disk (like knoppix) and copy the
> entire disk over to a 8 gig partition and then create another fat partiton
> of 32 gig to get around the limits of fat32.
>
> My concern is I do not know how to use dd to copy the boot sector from one
> drive to the next and I am getting next to nothing from the man page.
> Assuming that the old drive is hda and the partiton is and the new drive =
is
> hdb what will the command be?
>
> While I am it I would just need to use the recursive option on cp to get
> everything to copy across corectly?
>
> Thanks for the consideration.
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