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

[mike havens]

I believe you misunderstand... I'm not going to duel boot. I figure
that I'll need to install grub or lilo because I'm not installing MS
from their restore disk.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM, James Finstrom
<jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> 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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