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From: John Jolet <john@jolet.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050902000421.78407d4b@hactar.digimed.co.uk>

On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > My question :-
> >
> > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
>
> If both drives are the same size
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096
will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install step?
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 21:36 [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Stuart Howard
2005-09-01 21:50 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-01 23:06   ` John Jolet [this message]
2005-09-01 23:16     ` Ben Blount
2005-09-01 23:32       ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:33       ` Holly Bostick
2005-09-02 10:09         ` Harald Arnesen
2005-09-01 23:35     ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-02  0:05       ` Stuart Howard
2005-09-02  1:31         ` Bob Sanders
2005-09-07  1:08           ` waltdnes
2005-09-07 15:49             ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-10 18:13               ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question ----- > Disk image post Stuart Howard
2005-09-12 14:53                 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-09-12 16:26                   ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-09-02  6:23     ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Frank Schafer

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