NoCat drive duplication How To:

Went home last night and tried to dupe my NoCat box. Hopefully this is a good primer for those thinking about doing it.  This was on my Stylistic 1200 with a 2.1 Gig 2.5" IDE drive.

Ghost (2002) Does Not Work.
   (It seems to screw up LILO's boot loader - it appears to copy fine, but boots with "L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ..... " ad infinitum)

DD Does Work (a standard Linux copying utility).
 * Hook up your drive to the IDE bus on your Linux machine
 * Boot into Linux - I had the fortunate (!) problem that my new drive was recognized as /dev/hdc, and happened to NOT be recognized (since it replaced an already existing /dev/hdc.  This caused Linux to abort booting, causing me a much shorter boot time.  My /dev/hda drive was mounted already as RW, so I could do the deed...
 * Find out which drive is your NoCat drive
 * Make sure it's your NoCat drive
 * Really sure?
 * (for me) Issue this command:  "dd if=/dev/hdc of=NoCat.img"
 * You'll wait 15-30 minutes, and get a 2.1 gig file called NoCat.img
 * Shutdown, swap in the new IDE drive, reboot
 * Do the whole "Are you really really sure.." drive dance above
 * Issue the command "dd if=NoCat.img of=/dev/hdc"
 * Wait 15-30 minutes until it's done, shutdown, pop drive into Stylistic
 * Boot stylistic, change:
  * root password (passwd command)
  * /etc/dhcpd.conf
  * /usr/local/bin/eth0
  * /usr/local/bin/eth1
  * /usr/local/bin/nocat
  * /usr/local/nocat/nocat.conf
  * /usr/local/nocat/htdocs/splash.html

Not sure what else I've missed....

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