[slackintosh-users] Re: Thinking about Lenny
- From: Craig Cooper <craig.cooper@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:16:34 +1000
It has a firewire 400 port, but I have no firewire devices, so that
does not really help. I remember having a firewire PCI card somewhere,
so if connected to a PC, would the iBook show up as a Firewire device
- oh, this is too much trouble, I think networking off slackintosh
boot disk, enabling and restarting network, and copying the entire
hard-drive with dd would make the most sense? I have a loopback cat5
cable.
??
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Adrian Ulrich <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I need a method of imaging my iBook hard drive (not easy, as it does
>> not have molex power connectors (or any for that matter).
>
> Does it have a firewire port? If it does hit 'F' at startup and it will
> switch into disk-only mode.
>
> Otherwise you could use a combination of gzip, dd and netcat to
> transfer the image via ethernet.
>
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