From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 06:51:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219B216A41F for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:51:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@houston.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71C743D45 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:51:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@houston.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (cpe-72-177-196-13.houston.res.rr.com [72.177.196.13]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2E6pQFF007887 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:51:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <441667F0.3060301@houston.rr.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:51:28 -0600 From: "Steve P." User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: tribulations and success : copy from one drive to another. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:51:28 -0000 Greetings fbsders, I wanted to clone my regular install (source) to a fresh disk (target). Source and target different size drives, but target big enough. What I tried: 1. booted the 6.0 386 iso 1 cd with the target drive as the only hd in the system. 2. put a minimal install there. I wanted to get the slices and partitions right. Minimal install takes 2 min. 3. put the source drive back on the ata cable as master, and the target as source. 4. pc would not reboot, even messing with the jumpers, got tired and lazy, aborted. I was going to dump restore from source to target across ata drives but no luck. Next, put the target on a usb cable, so it was read as da0. Source read as ad0 back on the ata cable. 1. booted the cd as above and re-installed to target again, minimal install. Now, source and target have the same disklabels. 2. using dump and restore, put the source files onto the target, mounting the target on the source /mnt. Got some odd warnings and maybe errors. 3. shutdown, removed source ata drive, leaving usb connected. 4. attempted usb boot. Of course not! 5. removed target drive from usb and put back on ata cable. 6. rebooted and ge golly gosh it worked. dmesg looks clean. All this so I can test things before I mess with my "prod" system (source disk). I will do this again just to make sure I have it down. Thanks for listening. Steve.