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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!mdisea!lmorris
- From: lmorris@mdd.comm.mot.com (Larry Morris)
- Subject: Re: Copy OS/2 from one HD to an other.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.193454.20856@mdd.comm.mot.com>
- Sender: news@mdd.comm.mot.com
- Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
- References: <1992Nov4.220008.6743@csi.uottawa.ca> <Bx8xwG.C8B@tct.com>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:34:54 GMT
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- In <Bx8xwG.C8B@tct.com> paul@tct.com (Paul Levin) writes:
-
- >According to gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (7183):
- >> What I want to do, is install OS/2 on a PC, configure it plain Jane and
- >>the install the hard disk from an other PC as a second disk and copy OS/2
- >>to it. After that, I can just put the disk back in the other PC and have
- >>two OS/2's installed after 2 hours instead of 4! Wouldn't it be great!?
- >>
-
- >I do not think you can do this. If you do the copy under OS/2, it will
- >not copy files that are open, like the desktop. If you do the copy
-
- So boot from a floppy. You should have no open files at that point. Note
- that I have not tried the actual process of cloning a disk, but I have often
- booted from floppy to get at system files. The concept is good. ;-) What
- I would like is something that creates a system image that I could back
- up to tape. Then boot from floppy and restore the image to a new or
- resized partition. Sort of a dd for OS/2, but it would not require
- the restored partition to be the same size as the original.
-
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