Thanks for the info all you good folks. Steve that does sound like one hell of a trick, will have to look at taht as well as partitionimage. I thik I have that around here, but surely have dd on the box..grin. Well ay the machine will be for my son as I got my wife and myself Macs so there ya go. Scott On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Dawes, Stephen wrote: > OK, > Create a 3gb partition on the new drive. > Format it. > Copy all files from the one drive to the other, using cp -a > Now for the fun part. > DD the first master record of the old drive on to the new drive. > > Note, do all the copying of files through linux because Windows has > hidden files that LINUX sees. > > This should work. > > Also do a google on "stupid dd tricks" > It was an excellent article on how the author used dd to do what > you are > trying to do, if I am reading your thread correctly. > The author didn't want to use ghost because of the licensing issues > and > yet he had to create a number of computers with an imaging process. > If you can't find the article, I may have it around here somewhere. > > > Steve Dawes > Phone: (403) 268-5527 > Email: SDawes at calgary.ca > > > > NOTICE - > This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or > entity named above and may contain information that is confidential > or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named > above or a person responsible for delivering messages or > communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED > that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any > of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this communication in error, please notify us > immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this > communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The > City of Calgary thanks you for your attention and cooperation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
