dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

James Finstrom jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com
Thu Oct 2 22:31:52 MST 2008


I find sadly windows runs better in virtual box on linux then directly
installed. That said I would connect two drives and boot to a live cd
like the kubuntu disk ad do the dd

On 10/2/08, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
> Assuming that you have another machine with enough space to hold the Window$
> drive, you can:
> Boot both machines in Linux.
>  From the one with the Window$ installation:
> dd if=/dev/?da0|ssh someuser at other.machine.ip cat - > my-windoze.iso
>
>
> But I would just install the last Kubuntu, setup Windoze in a virtual
> machine and replace the file every time it gets screwed.
> Good luck...
> Enrique
>
>
>
> mike havens writes:
>
>> I hate windows! I hate it when I get a virus! Igot a brand new one
>> last night I was happily tip-tapping away last night but when I got up
>> in the morning everything was moving very s-l-o-w-l-y!!!!! After
>> running clam nothing was discovered so I just reinstalled my system.
>> So I figure that a good thing to do is to get the system like I want
>> it and then dd the primary drive. That way if I get a virus all I need
>> to do is dd the file back ontoo the hard drive. So I suppose that I
>> will need to put grub in the boot loader. Does this soun doable? Who
>> is gacious enough to help? WHich distro do you recommend? I was
>> thinking of using PHLAK <version?><old> but in my hands I have xubunt
>> 6.1, mepis 2003.10.02, Slax 4.2.0, and mepis 3.4-3
>>
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