It turns out that Knoppix 3.6 does not have a driver for the built-in NIC in the ThinkPad X21. What a pain. I used an older laptop with a LinkSys wired NIC to copy the hard drive using netcat onto another computer and (ahem) netcat for windows. That went really well. 20GB copied in about 90 minutes. I then put that NIC into the X21 and started Knoppix. Everything seemed just fine. Started netcat and away it went, but about 7 TIMES SLOWER. So, I killed netcat and used dd with a shared folder over samba. That took just over two hours, instead of the 11 or so netcat would have taken. The network wasn't running at 10mbps, or samba would have been slow too. It's not that the drive was set to PIO or some low data transfer rate, or again the dd would have been slow. Any ideas on why nc was so slow when piping through dd when dd using a samba source would be fast? 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