Date: 23 Jan 2002 16:49:03 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Reversing Linux and FreeBSD running on same system without mutual self-destruction Message-ID: <ogr8oga800.8og@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020123051538.GA3234@raggedclown.net> References: <20020123051538.GA3234@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> writes: > Here is a challenge. You provided a lot of info, but maybe not enough. I'm not promising any great ideas, but I was wishing you'd have given approximate disk/ partition sizes at least. Amount of unused space for tmp xfr. How many CDs you consider reasonable to write and verify. I couldn't get reliable mounts of Linux from FreeBSD and vice versa, so I tar'd directly into a raw FreeBSD partition from Linux and then from FreeBSD, untar'd it. I know that doesn't address some of your problems. You might best use a scheme which involves putting everything on CD so that you get a free backup in the process. If you've got room, do "dump ... | gzip | split ..." on your partitions and burn them. You'd need a big space to unsplit them to before "zcat ... | restore ...". (I wish I knew how to make a pipe work like a tape drive with end-of-file thingy so you could treat CDs like tapes with dump and restore, and embed a gzip. It should be doable. It probably should even be possible to make it work like a disk drive with 650 MB blocks.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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