IF (and only if) the drives are geometrically the same, you can use dd: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
to copy directly disk-to-disk, or to save to a file for later dumping to a disk: dd if=/dev/hda of=<filename> of course, <filename> will be very big and must not be on /dev/hda or you will create yourself a nasty little paradox. Andy Perrin Stuart Marshall wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to duplicate a hard drive that has Debian > installed to use of several additional computers. > > I can write a script which does: > > sfdisk to partition the new drive; > mke2fs to make file systems on the new drive; > mkswap to initialize the swap area on the new drive; > cd old-partition; find . -mount | cpio -pdm /new-partition > (for each partition). > > But then to finish it seems I need to boot the new computer > (after installing the new drive) with a boot floppy and > run lilo by hand. > > Is there some way to also install the stuff that lilo does > on the new drive? The new machines will not usually have > a floppy so I would like to avoid that step. > > thanks, > Stuart > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
