RE: Imaging ... dd.
Thanks...
Looks like you may be right on. Had tried to compress the images stored
on nfs server. Looks like some didn't get compressed so I wasn't
actually copying the partition to the new disk. Odd.
Running a few more trials ... current test is looking positive so far.
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R. Seiji
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Boyer [mailto:flar@allandria.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:12 PM
> To: R Seiji
> Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Imaging ... dd.
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:59:34AM -0500, R Seiji wrote:
> > Copy works fine. However, when I manually partition and do
individual
> > dd on a per partition basis, I get disks that either will not boot,
> > stall, or have Finder errors.
>
> You probably don't have proper driver partitions on the disk when
> you are using this method. The MacOS (and the ROM on 68k Macs)
requires
> a driver to exist on every partitioned device. The driver is specific
> to the transport (such as SCSI), although some drives will have
drivers
> for multiple setups and various patches to the drivers. It's pretty
> messy, and easy to damage if you're not careful.
>
> Brad Boyer
> flar@allandria.com
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