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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Carlos Macedo Gomes
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