On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:20:43AM -0700, amaya wrote:
> 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?

Do you really want to do this ?
with 'rwd0a' you're not cloning the drive, only the root partition.
To close the whole drive you want to use rwd0d/rwd1d

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