On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Karl Larsen wrote: > I of course see what your saying. It would be best if you have a > computer dedicated to running dd. You plug in 2 hard drives and boot up > hoping bios takes care of the hard drives :-) > > On the computer you say dd if=hd1 of=hd2 and neither Hard Drive is > doing anything else. > > But I don't have that many computers and hard drives. So I do what I > can and it appears to have worked. So far as I can tell, the important thing is not having a separate computer. It is not mounting any partition on either drive. A live CD can boot and run without using a hard drive. It makes its file systems in ram. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Horse guts never lie." -- Cherek Bear-Shoulders
