moving stuffs between harddisk

Net Llama! netllama
Sun Feb 6 22:01:15 PST 2005


You don't.  BUt you can't copy the MBR unless both disks are identical.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>
> how do you copy the MBR if you don't use dd?
>
> > To elaborate a bit more on what ROger suggested, what I do is boot with
> > Knoppix, and then use the 'cp -a' routine.  This ensures that you're not
> > copying temporary or transient data (such as that in /proc or /tmp).
> >
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