From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: Disk Image Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 07:23:53 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DAA7109.4FCFC88C@ihug.co.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Brett Cc: Paul Kraus , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Brett wrote: > > I suppose if someone were clever, A boot floppy could be > created that had just enough software on it to provide a > console, connect to a NIC, mount a HD partition, mount a > place on a Linux server and then, I suppose use dd to copy > the partition to the server. All you really need is tomsrtbt (a one-floppy Linux). It includes dd, mount and networking for PLIP, SLIP and several popular ethernet cards. Don't leave home without it. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs