Cloning IDE drives

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Thu Dec 28 23:50:57 2000

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, John Lawson wrote:

> My fantasy is that I can buy another IDE drive (of somewhat larger
> capacity) and just somehow copy the whole thing on the original down to
> the new one, without having to go thru the backup/restore/re-auth all the
> programs I've got on it. I have 8mm streaming tape backups of the system,
> but that's a pain.
>
> Any advice/how-to/magic formulae?

On an Amiga, I'd just jumper the new IDE drive as slave, partition and
format it, and then do a "Copy CLONE ALL Old_Drive: New_Drive:". I've done
the same thing on a NetBSD machine, though I've forgotten the exact syntax
for "cp". Is this solution sufficiently simple?
Otherwise, one might try a "dd".
Received on Thu Dec 28 2000 - 23:50:57 GMT