On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:55:00PM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a Debian Linux > installation. The installation is pretty small and hosted on a small, > PC-104 based system that has only a root partition and runs without swap. > I would like to be able to "clone" its root partition onto other disks but > am running into a problem. I installed the disk from the PC-104 system in > another regular desktop machine and tried to copy the image of the PC-104 > system using: > > # dd bs=512 if=/dev/hdc1 of=disk.image > > I then tried to copy this new image onto another disk of the same type as > running in the PC-104 system using (obviously installed in the desktop > machine): > > # dd bs=512 if=disk.image of=/dev/hdc1 > > The partition image gets copied fine, but when I go to boot up this copied > disk (after being re-installed in one of the PC-104 systems) it doesn't > finish booting. I see "LIL- " when booting the PC-104 system. This, > according to the LILO docs indicates that the descriptor table is corrupt, > caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running > /sbin/lilo. > > I'm confused by this as it seems that the low level copy with 'dd' should > copy everything. Any ideas?? imo the best way is to mount your new root partition to /mnt and then do a find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt
yours martin -- factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
