Retro Linux box: No SSH, need telnet solution for dumping a disk image over the network.

Sat May 29 02:17:17 UTC 2010

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:29:17PM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> At a recent Convention I acquired an IBM P70 (1989) luggable.
> I'm trying to dump the contents of the harddrive across the network.
> 
> The installed linux on the dosen't have ssh.
> So is there any way to preform the below with telnet?
> 
>   dd if=/dev/eda | ssh [remote] 'cat>  image.img' # /dev/eda is correct of 
>   this machine
> 
>   tar cf - / | ssh [remote] 'cat>  image.tar'
> 
> What do I need to setup on the [remote] side to accept the incoming data?

Answer:
    - "netcat", "nc", etc.
    - Slackware has "hose/faucet".

-- 
William

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