Disk Duplication

[Truhn, Chad]

Thanks for the feedback.  If I were to follow that process, should the
disk just boot right off the bat?

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[mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Fred
Chagnon
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 1:17 PM
To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: Disk Duplication

While I would assume the effect would be the same as using dump and
restore, I might have approached it with the dd command. 

# write floppy to disk image
$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootdisk.img

# write disk image to new boot disk
$ dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0

Hope that helps.

Fred

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com 
|  [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf 
|  Of Truhn, Chad
|  Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:59 PM
|  To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
|  Subject: Disk Duplication
|  
|  Gurus,
|  
|   
|  
|  First off let me apologize for what may be a simple 
|  question.  I am a Solaris admin and have been tasked with 
|  some RedHat things.  I was tasked to duplicate a RedHat book 
|  disk and going back to my Solaris roots, I chose to use the 
|  dump and restore commands.  This worked well and the data 
|  was copied successfully, but the disk doesn't boot.  I don't 
|  receive any errors (which is strange) it just sits there 
|  attempting to access the disk, but nothing happens.  I know 
|  in the Solaris world there is a command to add a boot block 
|  to a disk, and I think that is the issue here.  I do not 
|  know the conversion of what that command may be on the Linux side.
|  
|   
|  
|  I may even be off in left field here.  The boot block may 
|  not even be my problem.  I just suspect that it is.
|  
|   
|  
|  Does anyone know what the command is, or even a procedure to 
|  perform this task?
|  
|   
|  
|  Thanks in advance!
|  
|   
|  
|  Thanks,
|  
|  Chad Truhn       
|  
|  System Administrator
|  
|  Argon ST
|  
|  (703) 259-7397
|  
|   <http://www.argonst.com/> 
|  
|   
|  
|  

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