Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> I of course see what your saying. It would be best if you have a
> computer dedicated to running dd. You plug in 2 hard drives and boot up
> hoping bios takes care of the hard drives :-)
>
> On the computer you say dd if=hd1 of=hd2 and neither Hard Drive is
> doing anything else.
>
> But I don't have that many computers and hard drives. So I do what I
> can and it appears to have worked.
>
So far as I can tell, the important thing
is not having a separate computer.
It is not mounting any partition on either drive.
A live CD can boot and run without using a hard drive.
It makes its file systems in ram.
I don't have enough RAM for a live CD to do dd. The Rescue CD does
not have dd. I'm wondering if the F7 DVD might have dd? It has it
somewhere.
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