[MACEP] Dual Boot Linux and W2k

[Richardson, Jim]

Mike,

I will give this a try........while I do have some identical drives,
most are from various makes and sizes..............

Thanks,

JIm

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From: macep-bounces at macep.net [mailto:macep-bounces at macep.net] On Behalf
Of Mike Ely
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [MACEP] Dual Boot Linux and W2k


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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