19 Jan
2006
19 Jan
'06
20:57
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 21:17 +0100, steve 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.
Use dd with a large block size. That will make an exact disk-2-disk copy. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998