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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Can BL copy Win98?
  • Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:53:45 +0000 (UTC)

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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