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Jerry Feldman wrote: > > I asked a couple of people here, and they confirm that dd, tar or cp > should be ok. I think dd would be most appropriate when the source and > target partitions are the same size. The reason for the question goes > back to DOS when the boot sector needed to know where msdos.sys > and io.sys was. But, in the worst case, I have a Win95 and Win98 CD > and boot floppies, so there should be no problem to make it bootable > again. > > On 21 Feb 00, at 15:43, Derek Martin wrote: > > > Yes, I believe you can do that with Linux too... use the dd command. This is true with SCSI, but is it also necessarily true with IDE? I think the case of having bad blocks on either disks is a problem with using dd. Not absolutely sure though... -- -==- Kuan Lee - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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