Quote Originally Posted by henning.scheid
Hi everybody,

i want to clone the workstations in our pool. I use KNOPPIX for the network connection. While copiing on a fileservers export via dd, the system freezes. My steps are:

1. boot KNOPPIX from CD
2. mount export: mount -o rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nolock,hard,intr fileserver:/images /mnt/extdisk
3. copping the partition: dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -c > /mnt/extdisk/image.gz

My system is an athlon 64 with gigabyte k8n board. The network interface is a realtek 8169 onboard.

henning
Henning.scheid,

I am but a noob as far as the "mount", and the "dd" you are doing above, but, from the man pages on "dd", it states that you need if to be specified, or the input will be assumed from stdin, and that you need of to be specified, or the output will be assumed to go to stdout -=- from what I can tell, is, you are using gzip to create a file, which is being used to pass to the "dd" command, right? You specify an input file, but, don't you need to specify the output? ( again, pardon me if I am completely clueless about this, I am just trying to help, and, also, for myself, understand more. Thanks )

Ms. Cuddles