oxag
July 12th, 2010, 02:38 AM
Hi,
To avoid having both Vista and Ubuntu sharing my internal hard drive I installed lucid on a 16 Go USB key. Now, I would like to take an iso image of the key as a backup to reinstall on a new key in case I lose the first one.
I believe the appropriate command to do this is dd (or dcfldd) but I am not sure about one thing : do I have to boot from a CD and then insert the key to copy or can I do it while the key is 'active' (ie. I boot from the key and I dd that same key) ?
Thanks for any response
To avoid having both Vista and Ubuntu sharing my internal hard drive I installed lucid on a 16 Go USB key. Now, I would like to take an iso image of the key as a backup to reinstall on a new key in case I lose the first one.
I believe the appropriate command to do this is dd (or dcfldd) but I am not sure about one thing : do I have to boot from a CD and then insert the key to copy or can I do it while the key is 'active' (ie. I boot from the key and I dd that same key) ?
Thanks for any response