On Jul 23, 2010, at 6:27 PM, "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: > Tonight I have to boot a diskless server with iLO and dd a remote image available by ssh > onto a usb key. As there is no local place to store the image, whats the most efficient > cmd to push the image from the remote server using ssh into the local pipe pushing out > to `dd of=/dev/sdx`? > > Would a remote execution of `dd if=/dev/sdx` be the best over ssh? I suppose I could use > nc and do away with ssh, is that in the CentOS rescue mode? How about remote cpio? -Ross