I've got a laptop with a failing hard drive. I now have a replacement. Now I have to copy the data off. Here's my plan, and I'm hoping someone will say "Looks good to me" or "No no, you doofus, like this:" 1. Put new drive in the laptop to be fixed. Let's call that machine A. Boot knoppix from CD. (Why? Because it's pretty and I can noodle around while copying data.) 2. Put old drive in any old laptop, called B. Boot knoppix from CD. 3. Network the machines. 4. On A, run something like "rsh b 'cat /dev/hda' > /dev/hda". No, it can't be that easy, can it? Do I need to use dd (even though that just copies bytes)? Thanks, Chris Schumann _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list