From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 21 17:25: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pilot007.cl.msu.edu (pilot007.cl.msu.edu [35.9.5.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB13911226 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marti259@pilot.msu.edu) Received: (from marti259@localhost) by pilot007.cl.msu.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id UAA28862 for "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG"; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:25:03 -0500 Message-Id: <199902220125.UAA28862@pilot007.cl.msu.edu> Subject: cloning disks To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:25:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian Richard Martinez" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Presently we are making attendence servers for the university using FreeBSD's kernel, and in order to simplfy the process, we are looking to clone the disk. We already do Linux clones for our print servers, and so we are pretty sure we have the cloning process down. (tarring up the files, and then untarring them to the other disk) Since, we (think we) have this down, the only thing left is how do you make the newly cloned drive bootable. In Linux we just boot with a LILO boot disk, and at the boot: prompt we type mount root=/dev/hda1 And then log in as root, and type LILO to install LILO. But seeing as FreeBSD doesn't use LILO, but rather Bootstrap, how do we go about doing this? Also, if we are actually unclear on the cloning process, if someone could kindly inform us of this as well. Thank you very much for your time! ./brm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message