[quote="ghaze"]Doesn't anyone read the docs anymore?

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.ph...veUsingKnoppix


Like it says,this will work if your destination drive is the same size or slightly
larger than your source drive.
Boot with the noswap cheatcode (i.e. knoppix26 noswap) if you have a linux
swap partition on either drive.
Run 'fdisk -l" from a root terminal to figure out how knoppix recognized your
drives.If your new drive is unformatted,this ought to be easy.
If /dev/sda is the source drive and /dev/sdb is the destination,do this
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
If you get it backwards,you just overwrote your good drive,so be careful.
I'd suggest "man dd" before trying this.
You should also read

http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints...s_cloning.html

I started with - Clone a hard drive onto another hard drive:

Requirements:
Destination drive equal or greater than the source drive.
Process: Make changes where necessary to match your system setup. In my example here, /dev/hda is the source, /dev/hdb is the destination.

Boot from the live cdrom distribution.
Switch to root
Make sure NO partitions are mounted from either drive.
Execute the following command, making necessary changes for your system:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

but was not sure how to get to the root with Knoppix, then found my original CD wasn't sucessfully booting. I have contacted the fellow who wrote those instructions you reference, and he had promised to offer some clarity, but has not followed through. I am MORE than reluctant to use anyone's suggestions that include "fdisk". The drive I am cloning to has been low level reformatted already. OSSIE J H MOORE told me that the only requirement on disk size was that the destination drive must be same size or larger. I need a little hand holding, in explicit instructions to get to the root; any tips on dealing with a misfiring CD to boot from; how to be fairly certain in ID'ing the two drives. I have them spotted as Windows boots, both in a SCSI ID and a second designation during boot up. Will these be different?
TIA for any further help.

dj