[wellylug] Fw: wlug feedback

Daniel Lambert Reurich dreurich at paradise.net.nz
Mon Jul 23 09:16:09 NZST 2001


Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Electronics" <quinsales at quinmarine.com.au>
> To: <wlug at paradise.net.nz>
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:48 PM
> Subject: FW: wlug feedback
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you tell me if there is such a program in Linux that will make an
> exact
> > copy of  a Linux hard disk and be bootable when installed into another
> CPU.
> >
> > I know in Microsoft that a program called GHOST will do what I require and
> > I was wondering if Linux has "GHOST".
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Pat Ryan
> >
>
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I use dd to do a raw  binary copy of the partition. It goes something like
this:

1) make the partition to copy to the same size as the original one
2)I think its best to make sure both the partitions are not mounted
3) as root run:  # dd if=/dev/partition-to copy-from
of=/dev/partition-to-copy-to
4)edit the /etc/lilo.config to suit and then run /sbin/lilo
5)reboot and seee if it works.

I have done this myself with various partition with no problems.  My current
new trick is to compress a partition into multiple archives and save them onto
cdr/w's.

Hope this helps,

Daniel Reurich


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