Re: [SLUG] "Bare Metal" image for Red Hat 9.0

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 16:28:57 EST


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Meyer, David R wrote:

> Does anyone have a script to make an image of their hard drive (os,
> apps, & all) that would work on Red Hat 9.0?

Reboot from a floppy/CD, mount the destination, dd if=/dev/hda bs=16k |
bzip2 -9 > /mnt/foo/image.bz . Skip the bzip2 if time is of the essence,
and image size doesn't matter. Works on any OS.

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-eben    ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm    home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar

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