On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:45 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Is there anyway I can make can make an exact copy of a hard disk on another hard disk, mount the latter back in its original box and it boot as if it were just like the original?
I have 10 identical dell multiplex boxes. Each installation via our lan nfs server takes around 90 minutes because I have to setup nis, nfs and choose much of the software by hand.
Google is a minefield of ideas. Just wanted something 10.0 specific. Anyone been here? I have not tried this specifically, but the Unix/Linux dd command should be able to do what you want. Given /dev/hda The original disk, and /dev/hdc the second disk (on the secondary IDE channel). as root - and better performed either in single user mode or from a rescue CD:
On Thursday 19 January 2006 3:17 pm, steve wrote: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
This is a raw copy.
Jerry do the disks have to be the same size or geometry? IOW is this method in dependant of differences in the two disks?