The answer lies with the program called dd<br>I have imaged machines using the Helix live disk using dd, but never on a live system, so I'm not positive how it works. I believe Arron knows about it though. Here is one tutorial I found on the web.<br>
<a href="http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image">http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Scott McGurk <<a href="mailto:mcgurkorama@googlemail.com">mcgurkorama@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi guys, Im about to start messing about with a hard drive and I want
to image it to a file, so I can restore it incase I mess up?<br><br>Anybody any ideas how to go about this, Ive looked around, but no luck..<br><br>The drive i want to image is mounted as a second drive in a FC8 system. The drive has an install of redhat on it.<br>
<br>Cheers!
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