[Linux-Anyway] Re: Can't mount drive

  • From: Scott <scottro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:59:04 -0400

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:48:12AM +0200, Horror Vacui wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:45:17 -0700 (PDT)
> Meph wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> >   I'm rather scetchy on using dd, could someone help me out with
> > it?
> 
> I would, but I'm afraid I can't. I never had the chance to use it more
> extensively, which is a pity - I'm quite interested in it, and I wonder
> if for example one could use it to copy an entire HD to another one and
> boot with it. Just on the morning of the day I quit my last job I was
> about to try it out (with an OpenBSD machine), but the boss was quicker.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> Horror Vacui

The answer to that is yes---I've done it on a FreeBSD machine.  I do
remember it wasn't that easy to figure out the exact syntax to do it--I
had it written down at work somewhere, if I can find it, I'll post it.


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