24 Jun
2002
24 Jun
'02
9:28 a.m.
Peter C. Wallace said:
Sure, as long as dd starts at the first sector, its a decent physical
copy. I've done it with NetBSD, Ultrix, and HPUX on VS3100s, DS3100s, DS5000s
and PARISC machines. works fine. I think it fails on some architectures (I386)
where dd skips the partition table but I'm not really sure about that , just
have not had luck with them.
I (more or less) works fine on I386 with linux, too, as long as your drives
are the same geometry. If not, the first-stage loader gets real confused and
you can't boot... though this can be fixed easily if you put the target drive
in a working system and reinstall the bootloader (say, lilo) on it.
Peter Wallace
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