From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 15: 1:40 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 15:01:38 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F4037B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:01:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA10690; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:07:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <013801c06ada$19646ac0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Christoph Sold" , "Mark Saldanha" Cc: References: <3A413889.F44CCBBF@i-clue.de> Subject: Re: Making a copy of a existing drive Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:10:44 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I dunno if this enquiry was related to earlier ones from at least two people about making bootable operating systems on a CD-ROM. I wouldn't have thought it possible to "dd" to a CD .......or is it ????? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Sold" To: "Mark Saldanha" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Making a copy of a existing drive > > > Mark Saldanha schrieb: > > > > Hi > > > > I have machine that I would like to make a copy of the hard drive. Any idea > > what software will work or options I have. > > It would help if you told us if you plan to use the copy as backup, to > create a duplicate from your current machine, or whatever. > If you're running FreeBSD, you may use dd to pipe a complete harddisk to > another media. If not, you're asking the wrong list. > > HTH > -Christoph Sold > > > 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