[TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader

Ken Mink kmtrilug at nc.rr.com
Tue Feb 3 15:50:20 EST 2004


I do it over tcp all time.

dd if=/dev/hda | ssh <uid>@<remote machine> 'dd of=<where ever you want
it to go>'

Ken

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:56, Jim Ray wrote:
> The trick is doing it over TCP/IP...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael Hrivnak
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:49 PM
> To: jonc at nc.rr.com; 'Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader
> 
> 
> FYI, I recently used "dd" to copy the image of a Mandrake 9.2 install
> (mostly default install using lilo) between two identical 60gb drives. It
> worked like a charm, boot loader and all.  It took about 5 hours, but I
> suspect I could have tweaked the block size to cut that down.
> 
> Michael
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