Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one

2015-12-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/27/2015 06:44 AM, Tim wrote: Generally speaking, if you want to clone drives, you're much better off booting from some third thing, Clonezilla. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one

2015-12-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:14:48 +1030 Tim wrote: > Generally speaking, if you want to clone drives, you're much better off > booting from some third thing, and copying from source to destination > without any interference from an OS currently running from the drive > you're copying. Yep. I do that p

Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one

2015-12-27 Thread Tim
Philip Rhoades wrote: >> I am interested to see if it is possible to boot on an existing disk - >> say /dev/sda ("A") - and then manually create everything required on a >> second disk - /dev/sdb ("B") eg: Generally speaking, if you want to clone drives, you're much better off booting from some th

Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one

2015-12-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
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Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one

2015-12-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
Philip Rhoades wrote: > I am interested to see if it is possible to boot on an existing disk - > say /dev/sda ("A") - and then manually create everything required on a > second disk - /dev/sdb ("B") eg: > > - create the partition table and partitions on B > > - dd the existing boot track(s) from

An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one

2015-12-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I am interested to see if it is possible to boot on an existing disk - say /dev/sda ("A") - and then manually create everything required on a second disk - /dev/sdb ("B") eg: - create the partition table and partitions on B - dd the existing boot track(s) from A to a file and then dd