Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Michael Hennebry <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> > So dd doesn't have any device-specific knowledge built in?

> > > > Also, I don't have a /dev/cdrom.
> > > > How about dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd ?
> >
> > Would this actually work?
>
> Why wouldn't it? It's just a "cp /dev/hdc /dev/hdd". All the data
goes
> from one side to the other.

Reasonable, but not obvious.
For all I knew bad things might happen if cp or dd
issued 3k reads and writes.

> > /etc/sysconfig/network:
> > NETWORKING=yes
> > HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
>
> That's the wrong name. "Localhost" means "me". You can't call
yourself
> "me" as a name. It's confusing! How will other people talk to you?

I know its wrong.
Others can ping me with my IP address, but ssh doesn't seem to work.
Eventually I got a Secure connection to 24.116.184.201 refused.