I finally figured out to get dd to read the partition: $ dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/media/label/asus.20090918.iso conv=noerror,sync
Lots of errors scrolled by (not captured). Should I have directed the errors to a file? The last error (so far; still copying) was at 6143488 bytes (6.1MB). Once this is done (abt 4 hours if dd was right about 2.2 MB/s) I will see how well it compresses. If such a file is not useful please don't be shy about telling me... maybe I should use a tool made for this purpose like ddrescue or GNU ddrescue. -- beta installer left ASUS EeePC 900 unbootable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430333 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
