On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 03:57, Sid Boyce wrote: <SNIP>
For cloning the two 40G drives as masters on separate IDE interfaces, I'd simply use "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=1024k" and go shopping. <SNIP> Are you copying one drive partitions and information to another?
We've never experienced problems with dual boot machines where there was just the standard Windows partitioner available. Regards Sid.
I am told there is a difference of opinion about partition marking between *nix and windows. We can handle their markers but they have issues with our sequence. Various solutions seem to be reformatting the Windows partitions with their format even though qtparted can do that. Knoppix 3.4 is out but I dont know if the partition problem has been fixed. I have used PM and find it very slow if you set it to do a drive you basically go to breakfast and it will be done after dinner. qtparted while requiring things done is stages takes only minutes. You partition then format with qtparted and on a 20 gig drive only 10 minutes on a PII. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/