Vaxstation 3100

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Mon Jun 24 09:13:01 2002

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Fred deBros wrote:

>
> and...
>
> > So if you want a copy of the VS3100/38's system disk (540M
> Quantum
> > IIRC) I can dd it to another 540...
> Doc
>
> Does that really work???
> Can I dd a netbsd 1.5.1 bootable disk to another similar size disk on
> a vs3100???? Without partinioning it???
>
> You peaqued my interest.
>
> fred
>
>

        Sure, as long as dd starts at the first sector, its a decent physical
copy. I've done it with NetBSD, Ultrix, and HPUX on VS3100s, DS3100s, DS5000s
and PARISC machines. works fine. I think it fails on some architectures (I386)
where dd skips the partition table but I'm not really sure about that , just
have not had luck with them.


Peter Wallace
Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 09:13:01 BST