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dd cloning disks



SiS. Also called LUI. http://www.sisuite.org/

The presentations on the webpage are quite comprehensive and give a good
overview of what it can do/cannot.

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Bill Holt wrote:

> while we're on the subject, does anyone know of a solution or how to for disk imaging, not using ghost, like network boot with grub in combination with a dhcp/tftp server?
> Thanks for the info!
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Holt [mailto:william_holt at speakeasy.net]
> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 09:51 PM
> > To: discuss at blu.org
> > Subject: Re:  dd cloning disks 
> > 
> > I used toms root boot cause I was to lazy to build my own that will be a leisure time project. ATA33/5400 rpm disk. Left after one hour.
> > what did you mean by sys windows? I used grub for the boot, partitioned with linux fdisk, formatted with mkdosfs. 
> > hda1-ntboot-fat16hidden
> > hda2-dos622-fat16hidden
> > hda3-extended
> > hda5-nt-ntfs
> > hda6-swap
> > hda7-linux-ext2
> > 
> > oh yeah, i gave it an anti-climatic tag and dipped in aus jus as suggested
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Don't forget to stuff the disk in an anti-static bag 
> > > before shipping it to Asia.  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > Hello everyone, I am cloning a multiboot disk to another, the size is
> > > > > 10gigs, I've been looking arround (googling) but I can't seem to find
> > > > > any documentation on how long this will take. 500mgh,128ram. I have to
> > > > > leave work and I would like to know I left with a copy of my work.
> > > > 
> > > > I think much of this has been answered, but if you are cloning a live
> > > > filesystem you could have some issues. 
> > > > 
> > > > I always prefer to shutdown to single user mode or boot into a rescue
> > > > system before doing the copy. 
> > > > Additionally, although dd will do an image copy, when copying a Windows
> > > > partition, you should probably sys the new Windows partition to insure
> > > > you can boot it. 
> > > 
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