RE: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

["David Ross" <davidro@zdata.co.za>]

Thanks for the replys so far guys. Yeah I suppose I could RSYNC it
across like Volker said but yeah, I'm trying to do this in the simplest
way, ie no messing around with the bootloader or installing a base
system first. I'm trying again now with a new image...etc

Thanks again, I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Waldner [mailto:rw@coretec.at] 
Sent: 27 July 2004 01:35
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat 


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:13:22 +0200, "Volker Tanger" writes:
>What happens if you do the partitioning manually and image the 
>partitions (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, ...) one-by-one instead of the 
>complete disc? Well, doing the partitioning manually, you could RSYNC 
>the server instead of DD+NETCATing, which probably is faster and fails 
>more gracefully.

But would mean mucking around with the bootloader, which usually is the
point for doing _complete_ disc-images.

cheers,
&rw
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