cloning the A/UX root partition

Akkana Peck akkana at Apple.COM
Thu Apr 11 09:55:53 AEST 1991


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]
>
>	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.

Or even ... cat!  I admit that I haven't tried it on A/UX, but I've
successfully cloned SunOS with commands like "cat /dev/rsd0a >/dev/rsd1a".
(We were going to use dd, but just wanted to see if cat would work,
for the hack value.  It had been a long day. :-) )

	...Akkana		(akkana at apple.com)
Disclaimer: I'm a contractor, and don't speak for Apple.  
Apple does *not* officially recommend using "cat" to install A/UX.



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