Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable live CD distro, and then do this: dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/hda
That's equivalent my cp example and it doesn't solve the problem. I want (and need) to use an intermediate image file.