From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 16:37:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B0940B5 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAF92 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 01:38:30 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1820; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:41:58 +1100 Message-ID: <389F65B6.519211B9@S1.com> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 11:39:18 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Qingyue Shirley Wang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk imaging References: <055A195871E5D1119F8100A0C9499B5FCDF4CC@exchsrv1.cs.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day Shirley, > > I need to package up a disk image (basically a sector-by-sector copy > and > then compressed) so that it can be cloned to another machine with the > same > hardware configurations. Is there any tool available that will > accomplish > this task? What is the best way to do it? yup - check out 'dd' (man dd) and 'gzip' (man gzip). dd is a standard tool, you may need to install gzip from the ports - or you can use the standard 'compress', which isn't as "good" as gzip, but does an ok job of compressing files anyway. hth, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message