to dd or not to ddForum: HD Install Topic: to dd or not to dd started by: robh Posted by robh on Oct. 31 2005,01:58
well, i have finally got to a place where i am happy with my hdd install. i know u all think i'm mad not going for a frugal install, but i just want to turn on the machine and have all of my apps installed as i like them.any hoo, there are enough posts dealing with the pro's and con's of frugal, but i have a hdd install related question. does anyone have any strong opinions on whether it is best to use th "dd if=* of=*" command to take an image of my shiny new hd install of dsl, or whether it is best to go the "g4l" or some similar prog. route. i will be imaging my only partition on my only disk (apart from swap partition) to a usb external hdd. it will be no bigger than 2.9G uncompressed and the usb drive is working well in my current dsl setup. Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Oct. 31 2005,16:26
When I ran a harddrive install I had 2 identically sized partitions. When I got my hdd install how I liked it, I booted into runlevel 2 and copied the harddrive install to the extra partition using dd. Then when I screwed up my install, I could just boot back to run level 2 and dd the opposite direction. This, of course, took twice the amount of space on the computer, but helped me learn quite a bit about dsl. |