dd use

[gene bandelaria]

 the best way.is you gonna have a new hard drive which is secondary hard drive and use that one for your ubuntu.that is what i have right now.so my primary is microsoft and my secondary is ubuntu.so if you have a problem to install the linux.you dont have a problem to your microsoft
  -------------- Original message from Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>: --------------


> Paul,
> 
> Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > I want to boot a windows computer from an Intrepid LiveCD in order to make a 
> > disk image of a Windows installation.
> > 
> > Would this be the correct dd syntax?
> > 
> > dd if /dev/sda1 of /dev/sdb1/
> 
> Not quite. To write to a file on /dev/sdb1, you will have to mount it
> first (assuming it has a file system on it). So:
> 
> mkdir /mnt/sdb1
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
> dd if /dev/sda1 of /mnt/sdb1/
> 
> should do it.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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