Brett wrote:
>
> I suppose if someone were clever, A boot floppy could be
> created that had just enough software on it to provide a
> console, connect to a NIC, mount a HD partition, mount a
> place on a Linux server and then, I suppose use dd to copy
> the partition to the server.
All you
Your disk image question is really going to need some software that can
run from a floppy so no files on the partitions you want to copy are in
use. It also needs to connect the workstation your takeing the image
from to the network so the large image can be copied to the server.
We use some soft
Answers below
1. "Drive" is ambiguous. In the Linux world, a "drive" is a physical
device
(e.g., IDE primary, accessed as /dev/hda). A drive contains partitions
that
in turn contain filesystems. Windows people seem to use "drive" to refer
both to a physical device and to a filesystem i
At 04:03 PM 10/10/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote:
>I think you are seeing this backwards. I want to create the image of a
>hard drive that is on the network to my linux box.
>
>Sample
>
>Micro$oft Machine - Redhat Machine
>
>Create an image of the Microsoft machines "c" drive and store that image
>
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:03, Paul Kraus wrote:
> I think you are seeing this backwards. I want to create the image of a
> hard drive that is on the network to my linux box.
So, can you envision a way to "reverse" the idea he gave you to solve
your problem?
* * *
It's non-trivial in the
al Message-
From: Don Petrowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:57 PM
To: Paul Kraus
Subject: RE: Disk Image
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/directory/disk1.img
should create the image on your network. The image will contain all
drive information including partition tables.
You can use the dd comand:
dd if={hard drive} of={filename}
dd if=/dev/hda of=disk1.img
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