I work for a company that's too cheap to buy any Hard Drive cloning software (i.e. ghost). We are primarily a Windows2000 based org. Creating a network install, is also out of the question. PC's are to be installed identically with the same hardware and software. I want to install everything one time to a Hard Drive that is slaved into my trusty SuSE 7.3 box and clone it over to Hard Drives as the need arises. I am only somewhat familiar with linux, but someone told me that the dd command is a possibility for me. After I install the so called Master Windows Drive and sysprep it, will
Dale, The dd command should work fine as long as the partition sizes are identical. We in the Linux community use dd frequently to copy floppy images. While you might want to use a different block size, dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 This assumes that the drives are IDE. The appropriate test is to try it once and see if the clone works, then write a script. You can spawn the dd commands as separate processes and have the shell wait for completion. (Sometimes it is better not to run multiple disk copies on the same disk, you'll need to determine which is faster). On 9 Apr 2002 at 14:36, Dale A. Sprankle II wrote: the dd command in linux work, to make an exact copy? If so, please elaborate! TIA!!
Dale
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