cloning the A/UX root partition

[Charles Neil]

In article <1991Apr10.194542.23087 at eng.umd.edu>, sukes at eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata) writes:
 > In article <1991Apr10.025055.1029 at ni.umd.edu> steveg at ni.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes:
 > >In article <6962 at rex.cs.tulane.edu> dejesus at bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
 > >>
 > >>    Is there any program out there (preferably under MacOS) that can do an
 > >>image copy of an entire SCSI partition, from one drive to another?
 > >>[deleted]
 > >
 > >Yes.. you can use dd.  Although I have never done it from sash, sash does have
 > >dd and thus.. why wouldn't it work.. :)
 > >
 > >Just make sure all of your drives are low level formatted and type this from
 > >sash.
 > >	dd if=/dev/dsk/cxd0s31 of=/dev/dsk/cyd0s31 bs=512k
 > >where x is the source scsi id and y is the destination scsi id.
 > >
 > >As far as I remember, this copies the entire deal.. MacOS, p-map, eschatology,
 > >UNIX, etc.. so after that, you should be good to go..
 > >
 > 
 > Just remember when using dd, the source disk and the destination
 > disk has be the same model hard disk or the image will not work.

This is false.
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