On Thursday 22 May 2008 10:07 in
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0805221006050.5571 at skynet.skynet.ie>, Ivan Griffin wrote:
>>> I've successfully done this in the past using the qemu-img tool.
>> In fact, it can go from raw disk to vmdk and back...
>> I booted using a liveCD, mounted a network partition, and then used dd to
> create a raw image of the drive on the network. Left it run overnight.
> Then next day I ran qemu-img on it.
>> The following page has some details on using qemu-img:
>http://www.robertpeaslee.com/index.php/converting-a-physical-disk-to-a-virtual-disk-for-free/
>> Cheers,
> Ivan.
I mentioned this before, and have found it incredibly useful:
http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html
For the OP, change the target system command to
nc –l –p 7000 | dd of=my_hd_image.img
or somesuch. Same idea as above without mounting a network partition, and
includes optional gzip/bzip2 compression accross the network. Can also be
used on the live system (although if possible I'd prefer to boot using a
live cd).
Marcus.
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