From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 10 15:37:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2430037BA35 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01199; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:38:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003102338.PAA01199@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Waite, Michael" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the new DS10-L In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:41:33 EST." <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2D1F@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:38:54 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I new it was too good to be true. > Looks like we are back to the drawing board unless i am having a brain > cramp. > > The ISO image that worked so well on the XP1000 does not work on the new > "slate" systems. > > I have two internal 9 gig scsi drives. atwo nics, one qlogic and an external > cdrom/floppy hanging out of the box plugged into the onboard ide controller. > > Any chance that someone out there has done a slate install successfully? I don't think anyone even knew about these systems until you mentioned them. Can you be more specific about "doesn't work"? > I gave up on making the clone as I don't have the time to sit there and > newfs partitions etc. > I had hoped that FreeBSD supported "dd" At least to just get the system up > and running. dd'ing between identical disks works fine (I do it on a regular basis here). You can get bitten if you have something on the second disk that looks like a slice table/partition table because the disklabel code is trying to protect you from yourself, but in the typical case: dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1m you shouldn't run into any problems at all. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message