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#! rnews 1562 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!newspump.wustl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!usenet From: Matt Rosenberg <matt@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: HD copy Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:18:56 -0600 Organization: Washington University School of Law Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31087250.6742@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: @128.252.30.221 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) I have a hard drive with DOS and UNIX partitions that I need to make an exact copy of (every singly byte on the physical disk). I was going to find a disk with the exact same geometry, mount both and do dd if=/dev/rwd1 of=/dev/rwd2 PROBLEM: I can't find such a small (431 MB) hard drive anywhere with the exact same geometry. If installed a larger hard drive with at least as many heads, cylinders, and sectors/track, but told the BIOS that it really had the geomtry of the other disk, would this still work under FreeBSD???? Any other ideas? -- ============================================= Matt Rosenberg Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA matt@www.wulaw.wustl.edu http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/~matt/ =============================================