Yep, its possible. assuming drives are exactly the same: dd if=sda of=sdb Or alternatively you can image by partion. Also you can combine with tar and compress for friendly storage of your img if sent to a file as opposed to a drive. Better still, dd is already installed on your system. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Advance Warning" To: "KCLUG" Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:52 PM Subject: Re: making a exact copy of a HD > Good luck at trying to do that I don't think it is possible > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale" > To: "kclug" > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:27 PM > Subject: Re: making a exact copy of a HD > > > > Okay. what I am after is an EXACT copy of a HD. > > ghost makes a copy but it isn't exact apperantly cause > > it didnt' copy over some of the information on the > > original drive.. such as a software ID for the system. > > > > anyway, what I wanted to do is get a perfect dup of > > the HD which only has 1 partition. to another hd > > I use a HD with no partitions defined. for the > > destination. > > > > ghost as I said will copy the drive to the point that > > I can run it.. but it dont' duplicate the software ID. > > And since ghost is a PCDOS program I know that there > > has to be something really simular in the lin > > community. I usually use dd to dump a image to a > > disk. But that didnt' give me the results I wanted > > either. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > >