The easiest method I found was to reboot the iBook into firewire target disk mode -- hold down the T key as you reboot. This basically turns the iBook into a very expensive ATA to Firewire bridge; the internal disk is exposed as an SBP2 disk.
Then plug the iBook's firewire port into another suitably equipped machine and take a sector by sector copy of the disk: (assuming /dev/sdc is the newly attached sbp2 disk): # dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 | bzip2 -9 > ibook_backup.bz2 Restoring this is obviously just the reverse operation: # bunzip2 < ibook_backup.bz2 | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=512 This worked for me about 6 months ago when I had to get my ibook replaced. Backing up 40Gb over firewire to a Linux host at the time was rather slow. Hopefully the Linux drivers have improved. Good Luck! Will On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 08:40:25PM +0100, olli wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone know a howto for backuping the hole harddisk of an ibook >and for putting it back to the harddisk again. >i have worries about the partition table after writing the backup back >on harddisk and about the yaboot. > >tia > >olliwolli > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________________ William R Sowerbutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder / Guru / Nrrrd http://sowerbutts.com main(){char*s=">#=0> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@^7=",c=0,m;for(;c<15;c++)for (m=-1;m<7;putchar(m++/6&c%3/2?10:s[c]-31&1<<m?42:32));}
