How do i back up my new install?
sinck@ugive.com
sinck@ugive.com
Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:20:54 -0700
\_ learned something. It was late and I just started dd'ing into home.
\_ By the time I caught it, too late.
dd is nice, but you have to very specific about what you type when.
You botch an argument and it's all over.
dd if=bootdisk.raw of=/dev/hda
um, ooops.
The only thing that saved me at the time from that evilness was the
fact that I was on a SCSI system and the main disks start with an
's'. I could have sworn the brain issued "... of=/dev/fd0" but
apparently not.
When used, dd is almost as cool as editing the netscape binary and
changing the inlined images to something more amusing.
David