Hi, That's basicly what I ended up doing. Making an image of the mbr using dd, and images of the individual partitions using partimage. As a more long term solution I will probably look into adding speakup to Clonezilla, since it has some features I like like the ability to multicast kind of like Ghostcast. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:07:38AM -0400, luke wrote: > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Seriously, the way I did this was by using a special /sbin/loader binary with debugging hooks that I made ("dd" is your friend: binary editors are for wimps). -- Linus Torvalds, in an article on a dnserver
