On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Karl Larsen wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > 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. You seem to have a rare rescue CD. One can get away with mounting a source partition read only. You can use the dd to copy a read only disk. Do you have a swap partition? Some live CDs can be told to use that. It doesn't matter much if a swap partition changes while it's being copied. I think that with the right boot parameters you can come up with everything mounted read only. In that case, running dd should be possible and reliable. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Horse guts never lie." -- Cherek Bear-Shoulders
