I have a Peg 2 system which has MorphOS 1.4.5, Ubuntu, MacOS and OS4.1 installed. I would like if possible to clone the HDD to use on a second Peg 2 I have obtained rather than go through the whole process of installing and setting up the system from scratch. Is is possible to clone the HDD under MorphOS (or any other OS) when is has several different OS's installed?

Trevor


[ Edited by TrevorDick on 2009/2/15 14:25 ]

[ Edited by TrevorDick on 2009/2/16 18:19 ]

Acronis True Image 10 and a machine running windows ... I think.

If both disks are same (or nearly simmilar) size you can easily clone them using RAWDISK: device under MorphOS 2.2+

To clone whole disk attached as ide.device unit 1 to ide.device unit 2 you whould need to type something like this:

cp RAWDISK:devices/ide.device/1/rawdisk RAWDISK:devices/ide.device/2/rawdisk

(note that the cp command from MOS SDK is used instead of copy command, which sadly won't work with rawdisk)

You can also clone selected partitions (note that you would need to create them first on the target disk). Note that not all filesystems will work on cloned partitions (SFS won't - it would need to be 'repaired' with SFSDoctor to work again on cloned drive, as some partition offsets will change).

Simmilar things you can do under Linux by playing with /dev/hdaX device files.

WARNING - playing with RAWDISK and/or /dev/hd* devices is dangerous and it is extremly easy to kill you data by accident (wrong partition numer or so), so please think twice before enterring all these commands.

Wouldn't Ghost on Windows work?

Thanks for the advice. I thought about a Windows cloning utility bit I didn't think it would handle SFS partitions? As for MorphOS2.2 I have licensed copies installed on both my Efikas but I do not have the MorphOS SDK and the web address for developer site no longer appears to be valid?

Trevor

Some PC/Windows utility might work if you have two identical drives and have the option of a raw copy, ie. don't let it try to guess what is on the disk. If you check the left column here on MZ you will find a link to the current location of MDC.

Forget about the 'cp' command - it will fail after 2GB or 4GB. I wrote a simple command that will handle larger files correctly. You can download it here: http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mszyprow/simplecopy

Note that it is really simple - it has no progress display and clonning a large disk will take some time.

@March

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Many thanks, I'll try it out tomorrow and let you know how I get on.

Trevor

@March,

I have sent you a PM about usage of your SimpleCopy command.

TrevorD

I managed to clone my Pegasos HDD by using a very simple procedure in Ubuntu (which is also installed on my Peg II) which I found on the following website: Cloning a hard disk drive under Ubuntu

Anyway it worked first time and was very simple. Even the cloned SFS partition which appear to work OK.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

TrevorD

[ Edited by TrevorDick on 2009/2/16 18:26 ]

[ Edited by TrevorDick on 2009/2/16 18:27 ]

Yeah, we used DD in linux to clone the ODW drives back in the Freescale days w/ Genesi