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  • From: John Beck <john AT johnbeck.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Can BL copy Win98?
  • Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:37:57 -0500

I'd use dd (disk dump) to clone HD to HD.

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

If dd isn't available for BL3, I'll snag the source and make a package
in the next few days, I usually just boot off a knoppix cd and do it
that way.

sindi keesan wrote:
> We were unable to copy Win98 between hard drives using DOS and boot the
> result. Might be something about the hidden files.
>
> Would cp -a /hd/* . (after mounting both drives and cd'ing to target)
> clone a Win98 hard drive after formatting to FAT32?
>
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