dd use

[Tony Arnold]

Paul,

Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I want to boot a windows computer from an Intrepid LiveCD in order to make a 
> disk image of a Windows installation.
> 
> Would this be the correct dd syntax?
> 
> dd if /dev/sda1 of /dev/sdb1/<filename>

Not quite. To write to a file on /dev/sdb1, you will have to mount it
first (assuming it has a file system on it). So:

mkdir /mnt/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
dd if /dev/sda1 of /mnt/sdb1/<filename>

should do it.

Regards,
Tony.
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