[slackintosh-users] Re: saving partition
- From: Craig Cooper <craig.cooper@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:50:30 +1100
I had a firewire cable about 15 years ago -- whether or not I can find
it at this point, is another question entirely. I have two PCI
firewire cards (possibly three) for Win PC, but without that cable, I
am sunk.
Cheers
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:10 AM, ef-benois@xxxxxxxxxx
<ef-benois@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know of a Live Linux-CD for PPC
>> that I can image my HFS-Extended partition to USB (aaargh, that will
>> take forever) or SMB network share (not quite as long).
>
> Can your mac be started in the 'target' mode ?
> If yes, with a firewire cable, several possibilities :
> - link it to an ordinary PC with a firewire card, start it with any Slackware
> install-CD, and use dd
> - link it to an ordinary PC with a firewire card and Linux installed, and use
> dd
> - link it to a 2nd Slackintosh, and use dd
> - link it to a macosx that will show you a guest hard drive on your desktop,
> and use 'disk-utility'.
> By this way, you back-up on a hard drive, and this goes faster.
> Hoping it helps ...
>
> Édouard BENOIS
>
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