Ken Fuchs writes: > Anyone have suggestions on what might be the fastest way to copy a disk > image from an MS Windows 2000 server to a GNU/Linux client's hard drive? netcat. > NFS can be quite slow; is SMB any faster? I suspect I should > stay away from using network filesystems due to slower speeds. no, smb is not faster. basically what i would do is install cygwin and netcat on the windows file server. on the server: cat disk.img | nc -l -p 8080 on the client, probably booted up using knoppix or something like it: nc windowsfileserver 8080 | dd of=/dev/xxx (where xxx is the node of the target disk) afaik this is the fastest way to move data accross a network all else being equal. -- Munir Nassar _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: plone.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list