>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
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>--

Yes, I had already copied the /usr and /users partitions with pax but was
unsuccsesful to make a bootable drive with installboot/fdisk so I thought
in my innocence that dd would avoid all that trouble...


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