From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 14:20:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8177037B400 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6435D13; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:20:07 -0800 (PST) To: "Dimitri T" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:02:43 GMT." Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:20:07 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020116222007.CC6435D13@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Dimitri T" > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:02:43 +0000 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > hi, > > i have 8 PCs with identical hardware. They all have a hard disk of 20Gb. > I've set up one of them as follows: > 1 Win 98 primary partition (16 Gb) > 1 Win 98 partition for storage purposes (1 Gb) > 1 Freebsd partition (3 Gb) > > i thought that i'd spare a lot of time and trouble if i could ghost the hard > disks. i have run Norton Ghost but it hasn't worked properly. > When describing the original disk it marks the fbsd partition file system as > 'unknown' and after ghosting, when i try to boot the fbsd partition on the > destination disk, i get a "no ufs".. > > my Q: > is it possible to ghost such a hard disk with Norton Ghost? > if not, is there some other ghost program that can do the job? > > any pointer/info would be appreciated, man dd? I use it to ghost my entire system disk, except /scratch, to my backup disk. In most cases, it works quite well and the resultant disk is bootable (both Windows and FreeBSD). Note that I have not made much effort to optimize this. dd bs=32k if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/dev/ad2s1 dd bs=32k if=/dev/ad0s2 of=/dev/ad2s2 Windows is in the first slice (s1) and FreeBSD is in the second slice (s2). The slices are the same size. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message