Hi, Thanks Allen. The remote machine is an XBox running (at the time I might try this) the GentooX installation CD. I don't have a clue yet whether NFS is even supported at that time.
I'll give this a look later this morning. Thanks, Mark On 5/3/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > you can share the folder on the remote machine with nfs, then you can > mount the nfs on your local computer and use dd or anything you like. > > > On 5/3/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before > > installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe > > the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need > > to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the partition > > information from fdisk. Anything else? > > > > Thanks much, > > Mark > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
