Re: [Sheflug] Disk Duplicating with Linux

[James Wallbank <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alan,

There's a Shefflug thread from a year or so ago called "NFS the hard
way" in which I found out a method to clone one h/d to another with
floppy disk boots and a crossover cable. If this is the sort of thing
you're thinking about, and you don't have any luck trawling through your
no-doubt amazingly comprehensive Shefflug archive I'll send you more
details. The actual command you can use to dub off an image of a disk
partition is "dd" - but you know this already, I guess.

Cheers,

James
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On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 11:13, Dawson, Alan wrote:
> Hi,  I wonder if anybody can give me some pointers on disk duplication.
> 
> I would like to be able to clone PC's (with  a variety of OS - Win98, Linux,
> WinXP).  I imagine I can boot with a linux floppy - and mount the local
> drives and dd them to an NFS path .. or something like that.  Anybody got
> better ideas, or aware of pitfalls.  There will be NTFS5 file systems
> involved
> 
> TIA 
> AED
> 
> 
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