From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 12:53:32 2005 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 5342416A41F for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:53:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ababurko@adelphia.net) Received: from pobox.webstakez.com (pobox.webstakez.com [24.75.44.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A4A943D48 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:53:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ababurko@adelphia.net) Received: (qmail 69094 invoked by uid 1014); 5 Oct 2005 12:56:33 -0000 Received: from 24.54.72.242 by pobox.webstakez.com (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.24 (clamdscan: 0.83/761. spamassassin: 2.64. perlscan: 1.24. Clear:RC:0(24.54.72.242):SA:0(-2.2/4.0):. Processed in 5.830852 secs); 05 Oct 2005 12:56:33 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=4.0 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ababurko@adelphia.net via pobox.webstakez.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.24 (Clear:RC:0(24.54.72.242):SA:0(-2.2/4.0):. Processed in 5.830852 secs) Received: from 24-54-72-242.kntnny.adelphia.net (HELO ?192.168.69.100?) (bob@phreakout.net@24.54.72.242) by pobox.webstakez.com with SMTP; 5 Oct 2005 12:56:26 -0000 Message-ID: <4343CCBE.9040108@adelphia.net> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:53:18 -0400 From: Bob Ababurko User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charlie Schluting , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <839465400510041906j29e86ad8gfa84966726143530@mail.gmail.com> <4343389F.5040909@adelphia.net> <839465400510042024h4b0ba3b8rb33fff29993a024d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <839465400510042024h4b0ba3b8rb33fff29993a024d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Replacing a failing HD 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: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:53:32 -0000 Yes, I guess I should mention that the drives were on the same machine, actually the same bus and/or channel. I have also done this on Solaris. I believe it was Solaris 8, but it works just the same. I am not sure if it would work over a network. Just make sure you dd the disk as a whole as in /dev/daX and not by the slice. -Bob Charlie Schluting wrote: >>I have used dd to image a drive many times before in freebsd. It works >>like a champion and will boot up just fine. I may have misunderstood >>your mail but if not then it will work. >> > > > Well, maybe my weird "over ssh calling a setuid program that calls a > script" dd was flawed somehow. I'll do it again with both drives in > the same machine. > > Thanks for the response! > _______________________________________________ > 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" >