Urgent: Copy hda to hdb with dd?

[John (EBo) David]

alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> I have a master IDE drive all setup how I want.  I want to copy the image of this drive, hda, to the slave drive, hdb.  In the end, I want both drives to be exactly the same, boot record and all.
> 
> If I boot from the CD drive with LNX-BBC (Linux bootable business card) can I just issue the command
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
> 
> and accomplish this?
> 
> Is there some other command that does this correctly or better?

that is how I copy old MSDOS floppys when I cannot find other
appropriate programs...

There may be an issue of the size of disk, and it may require them to be
the same, etc.  If it were me I would just try it and see if it works...

  EBo --