On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > Boot Tom's and do something like: > > mkdir /temp > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /temp > cat /dev/zero > /temp/tempfile > ***Error message*** cat: output error, no space left on device. > rm /temp/tempfile > umount /temp > dd /dev/hda1 - | gzip - | ncat ip.address.of.server > > or something similar. Now THAT'S a neat trick! another question. I'm all for gzip'ing my dd image but in gunzip'ing... if I have a compressed image on a CD and I dd - /dev/hda |gunzip imagefile does it need temp space to unzip? or is stdin pure magic and I don't have to worry about it? -Brian