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Operating Systems Solaris Need to Clone Solaris OS to another disk Post 302972224 by rajujayanthy on Tuesday 3rd of May 2016 05:19:13 AM
Old 05-03-2016
Need to Clone Solaris OS to another disk

Hi,

I am trying to clone the hard disk image of Solaris OS on one disk to another disk. After some googling I found that there is a command "dd" to achieve this.

However there is a condition to use the dd command, that the disk geometry of both the disks (source and target disks) should be same. While I understand what is meant by disk geometry, I am not sure how to make sure the geometries of both the disks is same.

I can find out the geometry information using "format" command, but how can I impose the same geometry on another disk (in case the second disk's geometry is different) ? Is there an option in "format" command for this?
 

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isohybrid(1)						      General Commands Manual						      isohybrid(1)

NAME
isohybrid -- Post-process an ISO 9660 image generated with mkisofs or genisoimage to allow hybrid booting as a CD-ROM or as a hard disk. SYNOPSIS
isohybrid [OPTIONS] <boot.iso> DESCRIPTION
The isohybrid utility modifies a an ISO 9660 image generated with mkisofs, genisoimage, or compatible utilities, to be bootable as a CD-ROM or as a hard disk. OPTIONS
-h <X> Number of default geometry heads -s <X> Number of default geometry sectors -e <X>, --entry <X> Specify parititon entry number (1-4) -o <X>, --offset <X> Specify partition offset (default 0) -t <X>, --type <X> Specify MBR ID (default random) -u, --uefi Build EFI bootable image -m, --mac Add Apple File Protocol partition table support --forcehd0 Assume we are laoded as disk ID 0 --ctrlhd0 Assume disk ID 0 if the Ctrl key is pressed --partok Allow booting from within a partition -?, --help Display help -v, --verbose Display verbose output -V, --version Display version information SEE ALSO
mkisofs(1) isohybrid 17 Jan 2014 isohybrid(1)
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