Clone A Drive With dd

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Mini How To on Jan 7th, 2009 | 1 comment

“Mini How To” Clone A Drive With dd

Cloning under Windows always requires a third party application.  In Linux we can use a build in command to clone a drive.

Why And When Would You Need This.

You can use this for a number of applications.

  • Imaging a drive to a iso file.
  • Clone a defective harddrive to save data.
  • Replace a harddrive for a bigger one.

Keep in mind that there are more efficient ways of doing this.  But if you need to clone a drive or make an image of a hard drive, and you only have access to a Live CD.  Then using dd is a great way to do this.  Also it does not matter if the harddrive has ntfs of ext3 or any of the other file systems dd will image the harddrive not matter what file system is on the drive.

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How To Get Atheros AR242x To Work on 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Posted by Berry van der Linden in AR242x, Internet, Kubuntu, Terminal on Nov 7th, 2008 | 524 comments

Updates

**02-24-2009** Instructions for fix after update to kernel 2.6.27-11-generic below.  This how to uses compat-wireless-2009-02-24.tar.bz2. It was tested on (K)Ubuntu 8.10 KDE 4.1.2. Kernel version 2.6.27-7-generic & 2.6.27-9-generic

For instructions on getting the AR242x to work on 8.04 click here.

Introduction

You could see this as part 3 in the series: How To Get Atheros AR242x Wireless To Work
It’s with disappointment that I have to report the following:

I started with a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10, the reason for this is simple I wanted to make sure that nobody could say “you should have done a clean install”. On a clean install out of the box the AR242x doesn’t work.

What I Tried First

So I started to search for solutions. There a several solutions out there here is a quick list:

  • Install linux-backports-modules-intrepid. This works but you would have to reload the driver every time you log on.
  • Blacklist ath_hal and ath_pci. This didn’t work for me. The idea behind this is that the madwifi module will not load and instead ath5k is used.
  • Download and install the new wireless driver which uses the newest version of ath5k.

    • The last option worked the best for me so that is what I’ll go with for this how to. Let me clarify that ath_hal, ath5k and ath9k are all developed by madwifi so props to them for doing such a great job of developing the drivers that make wireless for the AR242x work under Linux.

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