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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> yOn Sun, 19 Nov 2006, John Beck wrote:
>
> > I'd use dd (disk dump) to clone HD to HD.
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hda  of=/dev/hdb

I found some answers.

> Can we also dd if/dev/hda1 of/dev/hdb1?
This won't copy the MBR - do we need the MBR if there is no boot manager?

> Can we copy between drives or partitions of different sizes with dd, like
> we can with cp -a *?  We have some 340 and some 500MB.

hdb has to be as large as or larger than hda.
There is no need to mount a device when using dd.  Do I format hdb?

We will install to 340MB and copy to 340MB and 500MB.



> > 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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