[H-GEN] Creating disk image
John Boggon
John.B at uq.net.au
Mon Aug 9 22:36:07 EDT 1999
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Robert Stuart wrote:
> John Boggon wrote:
> >
>
> I should have been a little more explicit with my dd statement. We do
> something like: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc (note there is no partition
> specified). This gives you identical disks in every way (partition
> tables, boot sectors etc). If we are doing a tar dump, we've already
> fdisked and formated the drive.
Even better. I've modeled my windows setup on linux with a separate
partition for the swap file.
My biggest problem now is creating a linux boot floppy. That should not
prove too dificult with the plethora of floppy based linux distros
lying around like muLinux and LRP.
>
> BTW, why is the "Reply To:" set to the chat list?
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