You might want to consider investing in a Laptop to IDE adaptor. http://www.bay-wolf.com/hddadapter.htmThese will allow you to plug your laptop hdd directly into your desktop and then image it from there. Being fairly inexpensive, they are a great item to have around for anyone that owns a laptop, and has personally saved my bacon after a laptop failure when I needed to recover data.
I picked mine up at a local computer store for $5 but a (very) quick search on Google products shows the cheapest one (after shipping) they have listed being found at
http://www.thefinalclick.com/Laptop-to-IDE-Hard-Drive-Adapter-Color-Black-Warranty-Lifetime_p_74901.html Hope this helps. Scott Weeden -------------------------------------------------- From: "Craig Cooper" <craig.cooper@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:39 PM To: "slackintosh-users" <slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [slackintosh-users] Thinking about Lenny
Hi Team, I have since gone back to Mac OS 9 <sigh>, and although I have it decked out with games and sexy apps, and emulators - the darn thing just crashes too often (like 5 times a day, compare to Linux's... well, never!). To overcome the (what I believe are) shortcomings in Slackintosh, and to offset the hours and days wasted in compiling SlackBuilds, I recently downloaded 'debian-503-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso', and have not had a chance to try it out yet, but the repository looks well populated with powerpc debs. 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). I will need to do it over the network to a PC, via a boot-disk/ram-disk combination. I have plenty of room for the image, and can run it overnight at 100BaseT speeds (need to back up about 20GB off a 30GB drive). Anyone know if I could do this from the command line of Slackintosh boot cd? This would be totally great if possible - the partition is a HFS Extended (HFS+), which I believe is supported. Maybe a DD command after mounting cifs. Cheers folks, themacmeister