From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAyEU-00055b-K1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:12:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81N9Bjs009403; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:09:12 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81N3wqG013392 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:03:58 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED3F18037 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31404-08-2 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.58] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34CB18031 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:28 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050902000421.78407d4b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050902000421.78407d4b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 93c443bb-60a9-4932-a017-77a59bc98273 X-Archives-Hash: efc99714847d6ec896fe27363bb14167 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? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list