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November 21st, 2008

13 DiskTool

Use the DiskTool utility to create hard-disk images. DiskTool copies, byte-for-byte, the contents of a secondary hard disk into an .hdd file. This .hdd file can be loaded as a disk image in the simulator.

DiskTool runs in two modes, GUI mode, and command-line mode. Double-clicking on the DiskTool icon, or running DiskTool from the command line with no command line options, starts DiskTool in GUI mode. If you run DiskTool from the command line and include any command-line parameters, DiskTool runs in command line mode. To get a list of the command-line options, run "DiskTool -help".

13.1 Command-Line Mode

The functions recognized by the DiskTool command line include:

Option:

G = Copy a physical device to the given image file.

Syntax:

{/G-G} <DeviceName> <ImageName> [ImageSize]

[ImageSize] = # of sectors of data to copy from the device to the image file

0= All sectors (this is the default value)

1= All data to the end of physical partition 1

2= All data to the end of physical partition 2

3= All data to the end of physical partition 3

4= All data to the end of physical partition 4

<Any Other Valid Number> = The number of sectors specified

Example:

disktool –g /dev/hd0 image.hdd 102400

This command reads the first 102400 sectors from device /dev/hd0 and places them in the image file, image.hdd.

Option:

P = Put the image file <ImageName> to physical device <DeviceName>.

Syntax:

{/P-P} <DeviceName> <ImageName>

Example:

disktool –p /dev/hd0 image.hdd

This command reads image file image.hdd and writes data to physical device /dev/hd0.

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4.4.5 specifications

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