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[ILUG] live ppc cd?

[ILUG] live ppc cd?

Stephen Shirley diamond at skynet.ie
Tue Jun 6 10:18:10 IST 2006


conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
> You know, thats a very good idea. I wonder should I dd the entire drive
> -> /dev/hda or just the partitions? Hmmm.

While both should work, i generally do it by partition for the simple
reason that it's then trivial to mount them loopback. I think it's also
possible to mount partitions from within a disk image, but it requires
trickery.

Steve



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