Hi Chaim ! On 1/21/07, Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BTW, did you try Knoppix instead of g4l?
Actually no, I know grml[1] has support for my Agere NIC and ipw3945 WiFI card but it does not have the software used in the g4[l,u] liveCD. I haven't yet dug enough to find out what is it exactly that g4l uses for the actual block device copying procedure but I do know that the software used is the one I'd like to make the cloning with.
Also see comments below. Chaim On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:52, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > These next solutions aren't _over the network_, but they don't require > pulling out the HDD. > > 1. Connect the two machines via USB, boot the laptop with a live CD, create > the image and transfer via the USB. Should be doable on-the-fly, without > needing to store the image locally. I'm not sure if the Windows can receive > it that way, if not then cygwin should be able to. > > 2. Just use an external USB storage and create the image to that with a > live CD, then dump it into the Windows machine. I'm sure there is a Gmach > for external USB drives somewhere ;-) > > Chaim > > On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:45, Maxim Veksler wrote: > > Ola list, > > > > Then I gave a shot at g4u 2.3beta3 [2], here netbsd managed to > > identify my WiFi card, but gave some warning's about "Unable to load > > firmware file". I then tried to assign it the proper ssid and get the > > device into "up" which didn't work either. I might be doing something > > wrong here and would appreciate if someone could tip me on how should WiFi NIC's require that a firmware be "installed" every time the system prepares them for use. It is not a complicated process and is generally automated once configured but probably has to be downloaded first. > > I am aware of the "from within" dd solution: dd if=/dev/hda bs=1k > > conv=sync,noerror | gzip -c | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] "gzip -d | > > dd of=/dev/hda bs=1k" but I wouldn't go this way because it's reading > > the actual storage while the system writes stuff - not good. Besides, > > what if I really do need to restore? I this case I still need a live > > cd that would identify my laptop's Wifi/lan device. Knoppix
I'd consider dd as last resort, namely because it will also copy blocks marked as "bad" and it has no chance on recovering to a different geometry. That's not an issue for me (this time) but I prefer to solve the problem at a wider scope if possible. Again, if I find no better solution then booting grml and dd'ing my stuff then I'll do it. But in my view - That's lame. [1] http://grml.org/ Anyway - Thanks for the help ! -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
