Mark Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:51, George Toft wrote:
>   
>> Method 1:
>> 1.  Boot a knoppix cd
>> 2.  Open a root terminal window and issue this command:
>> dd if=/dev/hda | ssh user@someremotehost "> /path/to/file/backup.img"
>>     
>
> When I tried this, I was prompted for my password for user@someremotehost, 
> which I entered, and then just fell back to the root knoppix prompt.
>
> Do I have to mount /dev/hda first? How do I do that?
>
> Mark
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No, do not mount the drive you want to image. You do not want open files
as you are trying to copy the drive.

Is this an IDE drive? If so, is it hda? Serial ATA drive are identified
as a SCSI device (sda, etc.). Depending on which port it's connected to
on your motherboard and what position on the cable it is (for IDE only)
affects whether it is hda, hdb, hdc, hdd, etc.


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