From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 27 18:59:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from web9707.mail.yahoo.com (web9707.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.128.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BDCF37B407 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20010928015910.25782.qmail@web9707.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.60.33.22] by web9707.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:59:10 PDT Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:59:10 -0700 (PDT) From: kjerste soderberg Subject: cloning laptop drives To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200109280142.f8S1gNv03448@tandem.milestonerdl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sanity check, pls tell me if this is right In short; booting off of ad0 and want to clone ad1 ad1 is blank and is IDENTICAL (SAME SIZE & GEOMETRY & MFR ) drive as ad0 can I be root and do? dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 running FBSD 4.3-REL tried it and it seeems to just sit there forever, dd never comes back, the red LED drive light lights up and stays lit BUT no activity on it, I mean it doesn't hang or anything & I can ctrl-C out of it but it doesn't work?? I do top and dd isn't even there .. Should I drop out of multi-user into single-user mode?? (I gotta hit the handbook on how to do that..) or something like that? I must be missin somethin here.. Thanx for ANY & ALL help ! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message