Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:39:20PM -0700, Jwelch wrote: >This is some good stuff, thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it. >The problem I have now is that every time I try to DD the drive, it freezes >on me. I have tried it 3 times and it freezes on the same number of bytes >every time.

Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Jwelch
This is some good stuff, thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it. The problem I have now is that every time I try to DD the drive, it freezes on me. I have tried it 3 times and it freezes on the same number of bytes every time. $ nc -l -p 7000 | dd of=/dev/sda punt! 16+0 records in 1

Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Jwelch wrote: > Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. How do I create > it so I can see it? You are misinterpreting what is written on that page. There is no need to create anything, nor is there a need to know about anything under \Device as that is the NT name not the PO

RE: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Korn
Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 19:18: > Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. Not "/device", "/dev". > How do I create it so I can see it? "mkdir /dev" will create it (but won't populate it), or perhaps better, you could use the create_devices.sh script that is linked

Re: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
There is no \device directory. You just use /dev/whatever even though it doesn't show up in ls. On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Jwelch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. How do I create > it so I can see it? > > > > > Dave Korn wrote: >>

RE: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Jwelch
Ok, that makes sense but I don't have the /device directory. How do I create it so I can see it? Dave Korn wrote: > > Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 18:13: > >> I've been trying to do a block copy of one of my systems but I'm having >> an >> issue with finding the partition on cygwin. When I g

RE: DD over Netcat

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Korn
Jwelch wrote on 26 June 2008 18:13: > I've been trying to do a block copy of one of my systems but I'm having an > issue with finding the partition on cygwin. When I go to /dev, I don't see > my hard drives so I can't do a DD. Even though you don't see them, they are there. The /dev filesyste