Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:14:28 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Stephen Hoover <shooverfbn@442spot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7 Message-ID: <20040118110136.N735@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <000901c3dd8d$75f036b0$8202a8c0@cutlass442> References: <200401152000.00111.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com><20040116032014.GC93061@grimoire.chen.org.nz><20040116081028.GA2485@ergo.nruns.com> <000901c3dd8d$75f036b0$8202a8c0@cutlass442>
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Stephen Hoover wrote: > I know the topic of "ghosting" a FreeBSD box is discussed on here from time > to time. > > I just wanted to let everyone know I had a success using Ghost 7 on my > current setup. I cloned it from a Dell PowerEdge 2450 to a generic desktop > with same drive configuration (2 SCSI drives in each). I used Ghost to do a > sector copy on each individual harddrive. > > All I had to do to get it rolling was boot to the GENERIC kernel, as the one > I configured for the Dell server was SMP. Everything seemed to come up and > work fine. It even saw additional drive space on the new machine, as the > harddrives were slightly bigger. > > Just thought this was some good information for the list. > > Stephen Hoover > Dallas, Texas In case you have time to work it out and you can live with some small bugs, there is a very promising OpenSource project on http://www.sysresccd.org SystemRescueCD is a bootable CD based on Gentoo-Linux. It can - manage partitions - mirror partitions - set up connections to nfs and samba servers via network - ntfs and ufs support is declared as experimental by the authors but seems to work on my home-network Regards, Uli. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+
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