DD not working--SUCCESS!

[Karl Larsen]

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     I of course see what your saying. It would be best if you have a
>> computer dedicated to running dd. You plug in 2 hard drives and boot up
>> hoping bios takes care of the hard drives :-)
>>
>>     On the computer you say dd if=hd1 of=hd2 and neither Hard Drive is
>> doing anything else.
>>
>>     But I don't have that many computers and hard drives. So I do what I
>> can and it appears to have worked.
>>     
>
> So far as I can tell, the important thing
> is not having a separate computer.
> It is not mounting any partition on either drive.
> A live CD can boot and run without using a hard drive.
> It makes its file systems in ram.
>
>   
    I don't have enough RAM for a live CD to do dd. The Rescue CD does 
not have dd. I'm wondering if the F7 DVD might have dd? It has it 
somewhere.




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