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Commands are always displayed in bold italic, preceded by the railway sign (#). This railway sign
stands for the prompt and doesn't need to be typed.
When we use the denomination "/dev/hdx" (for USB/FireWire you should change it to "/dev/sdx" or
"/dev/ubx"), we point to the target hard drive. On this target we will place the exact copy.
When "/dev/hdy" (for USB/FireWire "/dev/sdy" or "/dev/uby") is used, we speak about the hard
drive that we want to copy.
Needs
System on which we can connect our target hard drive (Intervention kit, portable with
USB/FireWire, tower with IDE/SATA ...).
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Network Connectivity
We'll use the TCP/IP suite in order to make the connection between the two systems. The physical
link can be created with either a "crossed link" cable or with two "straight" ethernet cables connected
to a hub or switch.
The two systems have to be configured in the same network address range. Use the ranges as
pointed out by RFC 1918 (e.g. 192.168.0.0).
On the system where our target hard drive is mounted:
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
On the system of which we would like to make the hard drive copy:
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2
Now you could test the connectivity with the "ping" command. On the system where our target hard
drive is mounted:
# ping 192.168.0.2
On the system of which we would like to make the hard drive copy:
# ping 192.168.0.1
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