A ddrescue static binary that runs on 2.4 kernel.
What happens if I have a very old PC with MS DOS 6.0 and I want to migrate it to VirtualBox?
Simply use dd and a USB to IDE adapter...
Unfortunately, I have a very old IDE disk that is not supported by the adapter.
Burn dsl-n-01RC4.iso on a CD and boot DSL-n from that ancient computer.
Then use dd to copy the HDD into a USB drive or a CD.
Oh, my! My disk has some important info but has many bad blocks. Also I noticed that the ISO doesn't have
ddrescue. What can I do?
Not so simple, because the DSL kernel is a ancient one and doesn't support the new ddrescue binaries.
You may need to run DSL-n in a virtual machine to compile a static binary for ancient kernels.
What? I don't want to get my hands dirty using
gcc!
Then download the precompiled binary from this repository and run it!