Re: Clone iMacs?



dd if=/dev/disktocopyfrom of=/dev/disktocopyto

if = input file
of = output file

and in unix, everything is a file.

And a little man dd might help also

G.

On 3/28/07, David Stubblebine <dstubb.mylists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> dd would work if drive sizes are the same. If the target is larger the
> extra space would be lost.

I wouldn't mind using DD, I am just not sure about the commands. I don't
want to compress the image, I want to copy it directly to an iMac attached
in Firewire Target mode. Can you give me an example command to do this?

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