From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 16: 9:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA3837B400 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:09:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958D8BCA3; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:09:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23103; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:09:23 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0H0BtS06567; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:11:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Dimitri T" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk References: From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 16 Jan 2002 16:11:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Dimitri T" writes: > if not, is there some other ghost program that can do the job? I don't know "ghost". You'd be satisfied just copying from disk to disk (one motherboard, not necessarily via a network), right? I think you should be able to just do something like "dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1". At least that sort of thing was said to work on Linux, IIRC. The closest I've come to doing that is: 1) copying a Win95 (FAT16?) raw partition to another disk's raw partition from Linux, and 2) storing a tar archive to another disk's raw partition from Linux and then unarchiving from the raw partition from FreeBSD. If you think that using dd's "bs" option will speed things up, do some tests; I've not always found it to help and it may give you problems at the "end" of the disk, unless you are careful with the other options so it handles the last, partial block (of the disks and of the dd stream) correctly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message