Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 12/04/11 22:47, Mark Kane wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to write a bootable disk image to a hard drive using dd in
> Debian like so:
> 
> dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M
> 
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> 
> -Mark
> 
> 

What commands did you use to create the original image?

If image.img was created by simply:-
dd if=/dev/sda of=/image.img
then bs is unnecessary.

I use the following:-
backup drive by:-
dd if=/dev/sda (through netcat and bzip) of=image.img
restoration is just reversed, works for linux, bsd, Windoof etc

Note: I've only mixed Slax and Debian for the image and restore parts -
so can't attest to the similarity of dd in other distros, and I only
image to *identical* drives.

Cheers
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