Hi Andrew On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 21:07, Andrew Smith wrote: > You would, however, normally do this with dd. > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 What function will bs=512 be? B.Regards Stephen Liu > > I also used this to image my firewall/router '/' partition coz it > is quite small and also uses a small % of the hdd: (under 650M) > $ dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=512 | gzip > hda2.gz > Then of course to get it back: > $ zcat hda2.gz | dd of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 > Of course ensuring that the unused blocks are zerod makes gzip > work very well. > > Ricky Malt said: > > You could have also treid the cat command :-) no jokes. > > if your hard drive partition requirements r same and > > your hardware is same or supported. > > like... > > > > cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdb > > > > this will mirror as it is regardless of OS. > > it worked for me. > > > > cheerz. > > > > Ng Chin Leong wrote: > >> I have successfully done the mirroring! Yes, we have to do the GRUB > >> rescue but there are still some minor tweak for the GRUB rescue. Please > >> refer to http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/grubrestore/ on the second > >> example. > >> > >> Once again, thanks to all that have helped :) > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Chin Leong > >> > >> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 21:51, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:11:57PM +0800, Leong wrote: > >>> > >>>>Good Day, > >>>> > >>>>I have a task to install dual boot running Windows XP and RedHat 9 for > >>>>more than 100 PCs. Are there any recommendation to install dual boot in > >>>>a fast and efficient way? > >>>> > >>>>I was thinking to use Norton Ghost to mirror from a fully installed > >>>> dual > >>>>boot machine but a friend of mine told me that I will encountered boot > >>>>up problem after the mirror. Please advised. > >>>> > >>>>Thanks! > >>>> > >>>>Cheers, > >>>>CL > >>> > >>>We are just at the point of trying this. In the past Ghost was > >>>sensitive to architecture differences in the different machines. If > >>>all your machines are alike this should work but here is another > >>>problem. If you use Ghost in byte to byte copy mode what happens if > >>>one of the disks has bad blocks. If we succeed I would be glad to > >>>notify you. I would appreciate any information you could send us on > >>>your experiences with this method. Boot up problems may exist but that > >>>is what Linux rescue disks are for. You may have to run lilo or > >>>grub-install again. But since multiple machines can be done at once we > >>>have found this method useful in the past. > >>>-- > >>>------------------------------------------- > >>>Aaron Konstam > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
