making disk images

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Mar 2 19:22:00 2003

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:

> Anyone know of an easy to make and restore disk images on peasea hardware?
> I've got a few on-topic boxes that I want to use for projects, but I also
> don't want to blow away the existing software as some of it is interesting
> and hard-to-replace. Bonus points if the image is browsable after moving
> but it must be able to restore to an identical state from basically the bare
> metal. What I'm thinking of is a NetBSD boot disk with enough software in
> the ramdisk to dd an image onto and off of an NFS mount, but before I start
> in on it I was wondering if anyone else had a solution.

Hard drives are cheap. Go down to your local thrift store and buy an old
PC that is still relatively new (i.e. has a decent-sized IDE hard drive)
for $10-$20 and strip the hard drive from it.

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