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

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

OK, lets get this organized:
>>> 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...
dd will read your HD/partition track by track and output it to of=<MYOUTPUT> 

You have to place MYOUTPUT somewhere and save it.
It is a file known as an ISO image. 

The cookbook is:
1.- boot machine in Linux
2.- run dd against the HD/partition you want to eventually recover, and save 
the output to a file, which implies:
2.1- if you have local space, use it.
2.2- if you don't have local space, use a different machine, which makes SSH 
the easiest transport mechanism.
3.- reverse the whole enchilada by dd(ing) back your ISO image to the 
partition. 

And:
Remember to dd the MBR too if you dd the partition instead of the whole 
drive, there are partitions considerations that you better understand before 
you use this technique. 

I'll leave away the details of how to do this until I understand what you 
really want to do, my previous instructions are totally unrelated to 
dual-boot, and using grub or lilo is irrelevant. 

My previous instructions will allow you to take an ISO image of your Window$ 
system so you can rebuild it afterwards.
Feel free to ask...    :)
Enrique 

 

 

mike havens writes: 

> 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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