Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:00:09 -0700 (PDT) From: kjerste soderberg <kjerstes@yahoo.com> To: Marc Rassbach <marc@milestonerdl.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cloning laptop drives Message-ID: <20010928030009.22753.qmail@web9703.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109272114360.347-100000@tandem.milestonerdl.com>
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SO you mean move to yet another machine and say boot off of say scsi da1 ? then do as root; dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/ad2 bs=1m would work? the bs I'm assuming is 1 meg size block taken from previous answer to my post? Again I thank ALL respondents ... --- Marc Rassbach <marc@milestonerdl.com> wrote: > The issue is the booting off the one drive. > > Move both to a 3rd drived machine > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, kjerste soderberg wrote: > > > 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 > > > __________________________________________________ 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
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