[MACEP] Dual Boot Linux and W2k

[Mike Ely]

If you have hard drives that are the same (size, geometry, best to just
get same make and model), then it shouldn't be a problem to use dd.  Get
a copy of tomsrtbt (an amazing linux distribution that fits on a
floppy), boot from it with the master drive in hda and the new drive to
be imaged in hdc (ide masters 0 and 1, respectively), and issue the
following command:
    dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc

Do NOT mount the drives first.  Alternatively, you can create an ISO
image of the drive by issuing the command:
    dd if=/dev/hda of=something.iso
Trick to that, of course, is that you have to have some storage (not the
master drive) mounted for something.iso to go to.

Cheers,
Mike

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:47 -0800, Richardson, Jim wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> My A+/Network kids and I are busy trying to create a custom Dual Boot
> Linux TC and W2k image for installing to a new combo lab we hope to open
> for next year. The lab will have PCs that can either boot directly into
> Win2k on the local HD for use in our Computer Apps classes or boot from
> the local HD to a Linux K12LTCS Thin Client environment for our AP
> Computer Science class.
> 
> We have spent many hours solving the puzzle of getting the Linux TC boot
> roms to work when installed on the local HD, rather than from the a
> floppy. With the help of several Linux folks we have a successful build
> that does just this using the XOLS boot loader. 
> 
> But here is the rub, when imaged disk to disk, the XOLS boot loader gets
> broken and the clone doesn't know where to boot to.
>  I suspect it is due to Ghost and Power Quest cloning tools just clone
> the partitions and ignore the MBR.......so the clone's MBR is not
> modified.
> We can reinstall XOLS manually from a floppy on each clone and all works
> well then...........but if possible, I would like to build a drive that
> can be imaged without a reinstall from floppy.
> 
> Would anyone have any ideas ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
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