You should at least be able to dd the MBR: dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.file bs=512 count=1 Then, to write it back out: dd if=mbr.file of=/dev/sdb Caveat emptor Luke On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Alex Snow wrote: > Hi, > Was just given the task of cloning several machines from a master that I > installed. THe master has both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 installed. > What's the best way to make an image of this drive so it can be copied > to several other drives? I was thinking of just using DD, but is there > any faster way? partimage looked interesting, but it looked like a pain > to clone an entire disk (doing it one partition at a time, then losing > the MBR from the original drive). > Also looked at clonezilla which looked somewhat promising (it uses a > console interface so could have speakup integrated into it), but I was > unable to find any source (or even a copy of the kernel config so I > could recompile) > Any advice would be greatly apreciated. > >
