On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:37:17PM -0500, Brian wrote: > 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 that's dd if=/dev/hda | gzip | ncat ... > > > > 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? ncat ... | gunzip | dd of=/dev/... It's pure pipe magic... florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4