[K12OSN] Kinda OT - Imaging Macs

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 21:28, Shawn Powers wrote:

> I'm not sure the ramifications for OSX, but since g4u does a bit by bit 
> copy, the OS doesn't really matter.  Ironically, you have to use an 
> intel machine to do the imaging!
> 

If you are going to juggle disks and the drives are really identical
the simple-minded way to copy them is:
boot your k12ltsp install cd (or RH/fedora)
at the boot prompt enter 'linux rescue' .
Skip the network setup and mounting the existing system and
when you get a command prompt, enter:
dd if=/dev/source_disk of=/target_disk
where the names of the devices will depend on how they
are connected. This will do an exact image copy of the
whole drive. If the source has a fixed IP address you'll
have to boot the copies off the network while you change
it.

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  Les Mikesell
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