Date: 16 Jan 2002 16:11:55 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Dimitri T" <midiostri@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk Message-ID: <zdn0zdu984.0zd@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F43mr5wL2QPNSa0000f34f@hotmail.com> References: <LAW2-F43mr5wL2QPNSa0000f34f@hotmail.com>
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"Dimitri T" <midiostri@hotmail.com> writes: > if not, is there some other ghost program that can do the job? I don't know "ghost". You'd be satisfied just copying from disk to disk (one motherboard, not necessarily via a network), right? I think you should be able to just do something like "dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1". At least that sort of thing was said to work on Linux, IIRC. The closest I've come to doing that is: 1) copying a Win95 (FAT16?) raw partition to another disk's raw partition from Linux, and 2) storing a tar archive to another disk's raw partition from Linux and then unarchiving from the raw partition from FreeBSD. If you think that using dd's "bs" option will speed things up, do some tests; I've not always found it to help and it may give you problems at the "end" of the disk, unless you are careful with the other options so it handles the last, partial block (of the disks and of the dd stream) correctly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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