From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 13:49:31 2006 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 BEA4516A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:49:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimaip@mail.ru) Received: from mx6.mail.ru (mx6.mail.ru [194.67.23.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5193843D48 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:49:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimaip@mail.ru) Received: from [81.200.1.125] (port=47359 helo=[192.168.0.119]) by mx6.mail.ru with asmtp id 1FEoBN-000JjR-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:49:29 +0300 Message-ID: <4406F7EB.50601@mail.ru> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:49:31 +0300 From: Dmitri Pisarev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <440168D2.2090208@mail.ru> <4402145F.7050602@mail.ru> <4402D660.7070003@verysmall.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer. 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: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:49:31 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: >On 2/27/06, pobox@verysmall.org wrote: > > >>Dmitri Pisarev wrote: >> >> >>>Nikolas Britton wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting >>>>>from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running >>>>>FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). >>>>>I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. >>>>>The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition to the >>>>>laptop computer somehow, so it would remain bootable? I tried to copy my >>>>>ad0s2(my BSD partition) to ad0s3 on laptop, using dd.exe for windows, >>>>>and all i get is "Boot error". I'm using freebsd bootloader on desktop, >>>>>and BootMagic on laptop, could that be a problem? >>>>>any help or suggestions are appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> >>I had the same problem (ThinkPad X30) - which I solved in a great way >>with VMware (www.vmware.com). Speed of FreeBSD is about 80% compared to >>native installation and stability is so far (2-3 months) rock solid. >> >>You can do a minimal install within VMware, then mount the desktop drive >>(via the network) and do dump/restore. >> >> >> > >Better yet... use pqmagic to resize / setup the disk (if not already >done). Then in Windows Install and run VMware Workstation 5: > >Click on File > New > Virtual Machine. >Click Next. >Select Custom. >Click Next. >Select Other, Version: FreeBSD >Click Next. >Click Next. >Click Next. >Click Next. >Select Use a physical disk. >Click Ok > > >Select Usage: Use individual partitions > > Doesn't work. Had to use entire disk instead. >Select Partition you want FreeBSD installed on. >Click Finish. >------ >Click on "Edit virtual machine settings" >Select "CD-ROM (IDE 1:0)", Change "Connection" to "Use ISO Image" >(If "CD-ROM (IDE 1:0)" is not in the list then click on Add, Next, >"DVD/CD-ROM Drive", select "Use ISO image") >Click on Browse >Find and Select: 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso > >Click on ok. >Click on "start this virtual machine". >Install FreeBSD. (select "use boot loader" when asked) >FreeBSD should now be installed on your disk. >Reboot and Configure BootMagic, pointing it to FreeBSD partition. >Boot into FreeBSD. > > >-- >BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ >_______________________________________________ >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" > > > > Thank you for the wonderful advice! Had no idea of that feature before! Now everything works as it's supposed to.