From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mta31.charter.net (mta31.charter.net [216.33.127.82]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D6410B05 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aarprv06.charter.net ([10.20.200.76]) by mta31.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20080924140819.PQIS4798.mta31.charter.net@aarprv06.charter.net> for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:08:19 -0400 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net ([24.151.121.233]) by aarprv06.charter.net with ESMTP id <20080924140819.TLAA3342.aarprv06.charter.net@h14me.homelinux.net> for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:08:19 -0400 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m8OE8IXi019332 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:08:18 -0400 Received: (from alex_snow@localhost) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.13.4/8.12.10/Submit) id m8OE8IWa019331 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:08:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:08:18 -0400 From: Alex Snow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: cloning hard disks Message-ID: <20080924140818.GA19314@gmx.net> References: <20080923202727.GA14857@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Chzlrs: 0 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:08:04 -0000 Hi, That's basicly what I ended up doing. Making an image of the mbr using dd, and images of the individual partitions using partimage. As a more long term solution I will probably look into adding speakup to Clonezilla, since it has some features I like like the ability to multicast kind of like Ghostcast. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:07:38AM -0400, luke wrote: > You should at least be able to dd the MBR: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.file bs=512 count=1 > > Then, to write it back out: > > dd if=mbr.file of=/dev/sdb > > Caveat emptor > > Luke > > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Alex Snow wrote: > > > Hi, > > Was just given the task of cloning several machines from a master that I > > installed. THe master has both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 installed. > > What's the best way to make an image of this drive so it can be copied > > to several other drives? I was thinking of just using DD, but is there > > any faster way? partimage looked interesting, but it looked like a pain > > to clone an entire disk (doing it one partition at a time, then losing > > the MBR from the original drive). > > Also looked at clonezilla which looked somewhat promising (it uses a > > console interface so could have speakup integrated into it), but I was > > unable to find any source (or even a copy of the kernel config so I > > could recompile) > > Any advice would be greatly apreciated. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Seriously, the way I did this was by using a special /sbin/loader binary with debugging hooks that I made ("dd" is your friend: binary editors are for wimps). -- Linus Torvalds, in an article on a dnserver