On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Denis Heidtmann > <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Read the dd(1) man page CAREFULLY. Double and triple check your >>> command line -- you don't want to swap the if= and of= entries!... >>> --Dale >>> >> >> I have a drive. It has not been tested. Will I have to move both drives >> to a linux system to perform the dd, or is there a live floppy (no CD on >> the win 3.1 machine)? >> >> Thanks for the advice. >> >> -Denis > > Get boot floppy with busybox on it, maybe this one > http://www.giannone.ch/bgtlb/current/ > > Busybox includes dd and nc (netcat). > > Using dd and nc together you can transfer the image over the network > to another drive or a disk image > https://www.ndchost.com/wiki/server-administration/netcat-over-ssh > > It will be slower than putting both disks in the same machine, but it > can be done. > > Bill
Those instructions for dd over netcat used bzip which is not in busybox. Here are instructions that don't use bzip http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/DD/dd_and_netcat.shtml _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug