For the list, Appologies Daniel, 2008/9/12 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't understand what you're trying to achieve with that tar > command. You've told bash to load your entire hard drive into memory, > then open it as a file-name and pass it on standard input to a tar > command that will read an empty list of files, form a tar archive from > them, and pass the archive to standard output (except that tar won't > create an empty archive by default, so it'll fail with an error). > > I think that what you want to do is "tar cjf / | ssh ...", but I'm > a little thrown off by your desire to use dd. Are you trying to load > a tar archive off a block device? > > Daniel
My brand new laptop with windows preinstalled and the recovery partitions, I wanted to make a disc exact archive of it so if in the future I'd like to have a vmware or qemu instance of windows for the kids or wife I could. After I get a copy of the info I require to install windows Then I can quite happily blow away the whole drive and put my Debian on it. I just can't bear to delete software that I have paid for (First time ever :-) ). At least with your description I can understand why it's failing :-) Is what I want to do possible? I wanted to do the compression on the new laptop as it's my fastest computer (The other computer that i'm transferring to is an old celeron 300MHz baby with 2 750G drives as my NAS). - Hide quoted text - Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
