On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> > hmmm just a slightly evil thought.... > > anyone tried > > cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/hdb1 > > assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types.... > Tried it... doesnt work. The correct answer is "dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hdb1 bs=1024". This doesn't care what is one the drive, even win 95 (known by experience), and it will act like a perfect mirror. The proper thing to do is to nfs export everything on one system, make a boot disk that can mount the nfs drive, partition/mount the new drive, and edit any specific info (hostname and ip) all by a simple boot script. It's way above my head, but when set up right, would be almost as easy to do 100 as it is to do 5. I think this is what the titanic team did (in the lj article). I don't think they used redhat's easy method. Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .