Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:29:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk? Message-ID: <199804091329.PAA08579@intern> In-Reply-To: <199804091316.IAA15466@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at "Apr 9, 98 08:16:54 am"
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> In a previous message, Andre Albsmeier said: > > As the subject says: I want to create a non-dangerously dedicated disk > > but without using sysinstall. The reason is, I want to make an exact > > copy of the present system (2.2.6) but can't use the dangerously dedicated > > mode because the new disk will go into another broken Siemens PC. > > > > By 'exact copy' do you mean that the disk is the same? I've just completed > making a boot disk/cdrom or tape combination to make cookie cutter > systems on some IBM Z Pros. > > If the disks are the same, you can get the configuration of the first > one in fdisk and make an fdisk.conf file to input to the new disk. > Read the fdisk man page, it's quite simple. If the disks were the same, the easiest thing to do would be dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/rsd1 in single user mode. I have done this many times to create a backup of our system disks. Unfortunately, the new disk is another type (other size, other geometry). But now I had success by using the old trick of creating a DOS partition first. The the disk had the correct geometry and I simply replaced the DOS partition with a FreeBSD partition with fdisk. > Creating the rc that did the install turned out to be the hard part. And mine is > extremely simple minded, and needs to be expanded to handle other media. I do > remote tape and local CD-ROM. A local/remote disk or local tape would be trival. > > I did run into one other problem. After rdumping my FS's to a solaris tape host, > I wanted to dump the dump files to disk so I could burn them on my CD-Rom burner > (in Win NT, grrr). But Solaris dd couldn't read the file off the tape? Anybody > got ideas why? And I still want to get my Philips CDR400t going on FreeBSD. cdrecord doesn't work for it? Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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