dunezone Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Is it possible using Ubuntu to image the drive by accessing the image over a network? Edit: Ive gained access to my other computer running XP and can see the image file, it displays it as only being 2gigs but really being the 6.3gigs, except I dont know if its possible to image over the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetta VR6 6Spd Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Is it possible using Ubuntu to image the drive by accessing the image over a network? Edit: Ive gained access to my other computer running XP and can see the image file, it displays it as only being 2gigs but really being the 6.3gigs, except I dont know if its possible to image over the network. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes it is possible. The image size shows up wrong on mine too, but I used dd to copy it to my hda. It works fine. Here's an outline of how I loaded the image: Use a bootable Linux (I used Knoppix) [make a mounting point] cd /mnt mkdir OSx86 [mount the windows share that has your 6GB image] cd /bin mount -t smbfs //192.168.10.120/OSx86 /mnt/OSx86 [dd your image to the proper hard drive] cd /mnt/OSx86 dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda Goog luck, BJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunezone Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Brillant, I dont have an external USB drive unless I use my Ipod which is out of the question. Edit: To anyone else who tries this method dont bother with Ubuntu, it doesnt like NTFS it crapped out alot of errors when I put the command in to mount the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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