Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
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.
I don't have enough RAM for a live CD to do dd. The Rescue CD does
not have dd. I'm wondering if the F7 DVD might have dd? It has it
somewhere.
You seem to have a rare rescue CD.
One can get away with mounting a source partition read only.
You can use the dd to copy a read only disk.
Do you have a swap partition?
Some live CDs can be told to use that.
It doesn't matter much if a swap partition
changes while it's being copied.
I think that with the right boot parameters
you can come up with everything mounted read only.
In that case, running dd should be possible and reliable.
I am WRONG. My F7 Rescue CD Rom has dd built in. I am wanting to try
it soon to see how a RAM mounted system Will work. I may need to load a
system just to have one working fine to put on the New Hard Drive. I
think tomorrow
Both Hard Drives will be running but not mounted or doing a thing. It
should be a perfect copy 8-)
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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