[CLUE-Tech] Poor man's Ghost?

[Matt Gushee]

I'm wondering if it is feasible, using some Linux distribution or 
other on a floppy or two or three, to:

  1. Boot up a machine and connect it to a LAN;
  2. Mount a network drive; and
  3. Create an image of a local partition on the network drive
      i.e., something like:

        $ dd if=/dev/hda of=/network/drive/hda1.img

In case you're curious why, I want to copy my wife's Win98 system to 
a new hard disk. The machine is a laptop, so we can't readily install 
another HD alongside the existing one. And we have the product 
recovery CD, but it's not bootable, and the boot floppy seems to be 
in a box in her parents' barn in northern Japan.

Has anyone done something like this?
  
-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO USA