[ILUG] hard disk imaging

cybersean3000 at yahoo.com cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 21 14:26:09 IST 2001


Maybe you should read the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini-HOWTO:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-
formats/html_single/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html

On 21 Sep 2001, at 14:19, cybersean3000 at yahoo.com wrote:

> MaxBlast plus is the utility available from Maxtor.  According to the 
> web site here are some features and limitations:
> 
> Easy to use, Graphical Interface (GUI) with mouse and printer support 
> 
> Breaks the Capacity Barriers of 528 MB, 2.1 GB, 4.2 GB, 8.4, 32 & 64 
> GB
> Creates a bootable floppy diskette
> There must be at least one Maxtor Hard Disk Drive installed in the 
> system for MaxBlast Plus to run
> EZ-Copy lets you make an exact duplicate of your existing hard drive
> 
> 
> On 21 Sep 2001, at 13:26, Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:14:24PM +0100, cybersean3000 at yahoo.com came forth with:
> > > You may want to try copying the source disk into an .iso file.  As an 
> > > .iso file you can move it around from place to place, and you can 
> > > even mount it like this:
> > > 
> > > mount -t iso9660 -o loop image.iso /mnt/iso
> > > 
> > If you want to do that, you need to use mkisofs, and you won't be able to
> > write it to CD because it'll be 10G.
> > 
> > > I do not know if it will be bootable, you may want to keep your 
> > > rescue disks handy to re-install lilo, etc.
> > It won't be bootable, unless you edit a lot of stuff (normally it'll want to
> > write to /var, /tmp, and find swap).
> > 
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