On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:09:41 -0500 "Martin G. McCormick" <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
> but I am curious as to why the first method simply has never booted? 1. As far as I know, it's not possible to simply copy a working /dev tree. These are special files which are generated with the mknod utility. 2. Booting a computer is fairly complex. Everything needs to be at a specific location on the drive, needs to occupy the appropriate sectors - which vary in precise size depending on the drive geometry as well as the partitioning. And everything needs to appropriately connected together. 3. dd copies at the bit level. It's a low level utility. And that's why it works, while the high level rsync or cp utility will not. --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140813100229.de497630651a63c0145d7...@1024bits.com
