On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:52:11AM +0200, T. Ribbrock wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm pretty certain this has been asked before and I did find a few > things on Google, but I'd like to be sure to understand it fully... > > I have two 20GB hard drives with the same geometry, the only > difference being that one of them is a more "silent" version.
"same geometry" - does this apply both to logical AND physical values? If yes (and only if), dd is your tool of choice. If not (that is, if there is only a small chance that there might be a hidden difference), be extremely careful. > In the end, I want to use the "silent" one for Linux. However, there's > a Win00 installation on that drive at the moment, which I'd like to > keep as is. Hence my question: > > Is it possible to "clone" that Win00 installation from one drive to > the other using dd? Has anybody tried this - and what were the > experiences? Am I right in assuming that the command is simply > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb (maybe with a blocksize to increase speed) > - and will that also copy any bootblocks that Win00 might use? Since dd would copy all of the disk (please, pretty please, use a decent value of the bs= parameter to dd) it would also copy boot information. You may try it out immediately after copying the disk over: boot from the new one (swap master and slave jumpers before, of course) > Any information appreciated, though I'm really after a solution that > can be done with Linux' tools, as my knowledge about Win is close to > nil... If you want to preserve only Windows information, why not get Norton Ghost or Partition Magic? (Ask a friend...) Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) MPI für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany (http://www.aei.mpg.de) e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
