I think in order to dd over the network you would have to boot to a livecd
of some sort then you can pipe
dd through netcat to a network drive waiting for you. Or as my boss has
suggested maybe you could drop to a lower runlevel and do it that way sans
livecd. There are plenty of tutorials on this. Use "The Google" as the
president would say.

On 4/5/07, Carlos Macedo Gomes <powerofprimes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/5/07, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:38, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > > I'll ask the obvious question and then get out of the way: Can you
> > > remove the hard drive from the laptop? If so, it's not difficult to
> > > attach it temporarily to another computer and image it.
> >
> > I like the idea....but the connectors for power and such are not
> compatible
> > with my old PIII tower. I guess I could go hunting for some patch
> cables....
>
> FYI and maybe OT -- For about $15 you can get an external
> USB<->IDE/SATA connector at Fry's and possibly other shops.  It
> includes power via USB or standard house AC.  I use similar tools
> regularly for imaging drives as part of drive forensics work.  It's
> handy for emergency backups or scavening data off failed machines too.
>
> ymmv,
> C.G.
>
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