[michelangelo]

Good morning . I know there are a few tutorials about how to clone a root drive, but this case is a bit different.

SCENARIO
I have an octane2 with the original drive (and delicate data in it). I have NO root password hence is a bit of a brick and can't use this drive as foundation for extra work / cloning.

PROCESS
The machine has 3 slots so my plan is

Slot 1) Clean install of Irix. Currently done and working fine ; )
Slot 2) Insert the original drive to clone
Slot 3) Insert a clean drive where n2 will be copied.

All the procedures I find online assumes 2 drives only, the root to be cloned and the target. Is there a different procedure in my case since the actual OS running the machine is in slot 1 and I have the luxury of 2 extra empty slots ? 

After the clone is done I will clean the root password of the copied disk and try to gain control again of the original data... but for safety I want to mess up the clone only.

Thanks in advance.