From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 06:30:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25426 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 06:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25409 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 06:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29408 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:29:38 +0200 (MDT) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06351 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:29:41 +0200 (MDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12760 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:29:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199804091329.PAA08579@intern> Subject: Re: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk? In-Reply-To: <199804091316.IAA15466@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at "Apr 9, 98 08:16:54 am" To: proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:29:37 +0200 (CEST) Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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