From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 19: 8:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mango-bay.com (mail.mango-bay.com [208.206.15.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7267637B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:08:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway ([63.70.155.111]) by mail.mango-bay.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:11:54 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "FBSD Questions" Subject: RE: PC Cloning : Advice and help needed Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:08:24 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20020128175718.C79959-100000@localhost> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last 2 months your question has been asked many different way. Searching the archives would have answered your question. Check out these subject lines in the archives and you will have all kinds of options. http://unser.ferzkopp.net/Software/CloneIt/CloneIt.html RE: Backup using TAR RE: Copy a running system Re: copying a directory and sub directories Re: Howto replicate a existing system to a new system RE: Migrating FreeBSD to a bigger harddrive... Re: Mirroring Hard Disk -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of f.johan.beisser Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:15 PM To: xw Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Cloning : Advice and help needed On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, xw wrote: > Ok, here is a FreeBSD newbie question to all the FreeBSD gurus. > > Is it possible to clone a whole PC(running 4.4) to another laptop > running the same version of FreeBSD? yes. > We have an emulator program that runs on the desktop (some special > image processing program which builds upon FreeBSD) but we couldn't > find the source code that our "predecessor" used to install the > emulator program. Wondering if there is any magic way to clone the > whole PC to another..... > > Desktop(Running 4.4 with some) ----clone to --> Laptop(4.4) > (special emulator program) > > Any help and advice would be very much appreciated!! Thanks in > advance! you can "clone" the disk a few ways. the more popular ones are rdist(1), tar(1), and dd(1). these are all fairly well documented. i would HIGHLY suggest you dig up more information on your graphics program first, and see what libraries, dependancies, and binaries it depends on before you do anything. digging up information about what you're messing with, before you play around with copying it is vital, and may save you quite a bit of grief. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message