I also have exactly the same problem!  -Mike


On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, amaya wrote:

> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:20:43 -0700 (PDT)
> From: amaya <amaya@idiom.com>
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Help Cloning a drive -- dd broken?
>
> I have been trying to clone an existing installation of 1.41-i386 by
> dd-ing it from source drive (rwd0a) to an identical destination drive
> (rwd1a) but dd always fails with a "read-only" error on the destination
> drive. What is the problem?
>
> Seems to me I've done this exact thing on PMAX's and Alphas with no
> problem...
>
>
> Both drives have identical disk labels
>
> I was using dd as a last resort after I tried cloning by using
> newfs,pax,installboot and messing about with the fdisk utility,but never
> ended up with a bootable drive...
>
> Any suggestions appreciated...
>
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> PCW
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