Image from Network

[dunezone]

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.

[Jetta VR6 6Spd]

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.

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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

[dunezone]

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.