I was in a pinch. I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on. The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it. All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a short Ethernet cable. I took the following steps: boot the target machine up with the Fedora Linux installer in a live environment modify the SSH configuration on the target machine to allow root user login with a pass...
