How to create disk image with Linux?

zaoka · 07-14-2005, 02:37 PM

Is there a way to boot from linux CD and create an image of hard disk with Windows installation?

On the end create a bootable recovery CD....????

Matir · 07-14-2005, 03:09 PM

You can create an image using dd:

Code:

dd if=/dev/hdXX of=/mnt/otherpartition/hdXX.img bs=4M

I know of no way to create a bootable recovery CD, though again, linux could restore this image.

zaoka · 07-14-2005, 03:14 PM

What is command to restore it and is there a way (command) to save it on network server automatically?

Matir · 07-14-2005, 03:29 PM

Well, you'd just need to mount the network server's exported drive and put "of" there. To restore it, just reverse if and of.