> Hope this isn't too off topic, but Tomsrtbt is
> useful for rescuing, restoring and cloning.
I used tomsrtbt to transfer the contents of my hard drive when I got
a replacement PC for my old, flakey machine. Since the disk
drives were identical I simply did a brute force copy from one
machine to the other:
New Machine 192.168.0.240
nc -l -p 7001 | dd of=/dev/hda
Old Machine
dd if=/dev/hda | nc -w 3 -n 192.168.0.240 7001
Worked like a charm.
> I've seen bs=446 for
> the write and bs=512 for the read with dd, any reason
> for the different bs' ? I imagine the new partitit
The dos partition table starts at byte 446; bytes 0-445 contain the
bootstrap loader.
Ed
