[PLUG] fstab entry

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Sun Aug 30 04:16:54 UTC 2015


On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Denis Heidtmann
> <denis.heidtmann at 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



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