----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: making disk images
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
>
> > Anyone know of an easy to make and restore disk images on peasea
hardware?
> Uhm, do you mean hard drives? And on what type of machine? If they're
> SCSI or ATA (IDE), I'd recommend just throwing the drive onto some other
> machine, and using that machine to dd it off to a file or another raw
> drive.
Well, mostly IDE, but the occasional DBA or SCSI machine. I suppose I could
pull the drive, but that'd entail firing up another peasea to slurp it off
with. I figure it's easier to pop in some ne2k clone, and I already have a
good number of GB spinning in other machines where IDE/EIDE/ATA is not an
option.
>
> Or, you might want to just pull the drive and replace it with another one
> you feel safe blasting the data to /dev/null...
Haven't found a cheap, local supply of smaller drives yet. That, and I'm a
software packrat-- I just can't bring myself to delete it, no matter how old
or crufty it is.
>
> Pat
Bob
Received on Sun Mar 02 2003 - 19:50:00 GMT