Dear all,

I am currently trying to create a clone cd so we can stuff a standard
slackware image on several servers, however my / dir is missing all
it's branches (boo hoo).

What I am doing is this - booting from a boot cd and running the
following command:

dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=1k count=991992 | bzip2 -v9 > ~/rootfs.bz2

This creates the image which i then burn onto a bootable cdrom.

Then to install the image i am creating a partition and running mke2fs
on it, then i do the reverse of the above operation

bzip2 -dcv | dd of=/dev/sda2 bs=1k count=991992k

however, when i then mount /dev/sda2 I need to run e2fsck -yv. After
fsck it mount ok but the only dirs present are symlinks to files on
remote filesystems and vmlinuz. Allthe other directories eg /bin /var
/usr etc have vanished.

The same identical process works fine for copying /usr and /usr/local
from their respective partitions, however these are on reiser - would
this make a difference?

any help would be greatly appreciated.


gareth


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Garetrh Ansell (<ai60r4$6fp$1@sunbeam.coventry.ac.uk> ):

> Dear all,
>
> I am currently trying to create a clone cd so we can stuff a
> standard slackware image on several servers, however my / dir is
> missing all it's branches (boo hoo).
>
> What I am doing is this - booting from a boot cd and running the
> following command:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=1k count=991992 | bzip2 -v9 > ~/rootfs.bz2
>
> This creates the image which i then burn onto a bootable cdrom.
>
> Then to install the image i am creating a partition and running
> mke2fs on it, then i do the reverse of the above operation
>
> bzip2 -dcv | dd of=/dev/sda2 bs=1k count=991992k
>
> however, when i then mount /dev/sda2 I need to run e2fsck -yv.
> After fsck it mount ok but the only dirs present are symlinks to
> files on remote filesystems and vmlinuz. Allthe other directories
> eg /bin /var /usr etc have vanished.

AFAIK, you can only copy a whole disk with dd, and you need two
identical disks, to clone a system.

Michael Heiming
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