Creating Image

[Dan]

Jim Douglas wrote:

> I have grub, I'm using it for a dual boot system.  If the drive were 
> to fail I would make it just a Linux box.
>
> It's just a development box and it's only 20GB.  So if my HD failed 
> and I installed a new one this would do it then,
> backup,
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M
> restore,
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=16M
>
> The USB drive is much larger than my server HD.
>
> My main concern is that I have spent so much time researching and 
> configuring this box, I don't care about the data.
>
> Jim
>
>
As long as /dev/sda1 is exactly equal or greater than in size than 
/dev/hda1 (preferably equal, otherwise you'd be wasting space), you can 
check this/manipulate the partition with parted or fdisk.
-Dan