[TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Fri Nov 8 07:22:37 EST 2002


I'm not qualified to comment on dd yet have created a DOS boot disk with
TCP/IP, booted to floppy and transferred an image of a hard disk to a
network share with Ghost.

Maybe one of the more knowledgeable folks in Linux can share a method
using dd.  I don't know how to get Linux and TCP/IP together with a 1.44
MB footprint.  Maybe with a 650 MB El Torito bootable CDROM, though...


-----Original Message-----
From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:Ken.Coar at Golux.Com] 
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 6:03 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement

Roy Vestal wrote:
> 
> or just dd from drive to file then new drive from file

okey, i'm thick and don't do this sort of stuff often (thank
goodness!)..  any special arguments to dd?  and how do you
specify/determine the amount of data to dd?  this specific
thing i've never done before.

i *don't* have enough disk space on the laptop, so i'm going
to have to xfer it across the net.  i *don't* have spare ide
bays, and don't want to keep popping the skins anyway, so
the drive-size adapter idea, thoguh interesting, doesn't
help much.  i have no idea how to access remote samba filesystems
from a non-rl3 environment; since i expect i'll be using
one of the alternate consoles from the rh install cds, how
is that done?

please, small words and complete steps, as though i'm a newbie (which
i aam for most of the actions needed for this, at least for linux).

i find it interesting that no-one has commented on dump/restore.
does no-one even use them anymore?


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