Disk images

[Daniel Carrera]

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> I dd the MBR onto the new drive first (with the bootloader).
> Then use fdisk to create the partition (only modifies the partition 
> tables).
> Then mkfs.ext2 the new partition.
> Tar up the partition I want to copy.
> Untar it onto the new partition.
> Boot.

Thanks, I'll try that. Kind of makes you wonder why you need partimage 
when tar will do the job.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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