Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:48:18 -0500 From: Eric I.Arnoth <earnoth@comcast.net> To: Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us>, 'Lord Raiden' <raiden23@netzero.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20020222025103.IWRL5710.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> In-Reply-To: <BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B93453A9047@ntxmidcity.sdccd.cc.ca.us> References: <BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B93453A9047@ntxmidcity.sdccd.cc.ca.us>
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In the past, I have used dd to image a copy of a FreeBSD formatted partition and individual slices. I was able to do a complete disk image (I forget how long it took) dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/a/file/on/a/disk/larger/than/ad0 dd if=/a/file/on/a/disk/larger/than/ad0 of=/dev/target_adX The only probem was I couldn't get it to boot. I didn't mess with it for very long, but I do recall trying to use the boot floppies to make a boot sector. That failed, as I recall. In any case, I should think dd would be a good alternative to Norton Ghost. My one point of confusion was why the boot sector did not transfer. -E On Thursday 21 February 2002 12:51, Erin Fortenberry wrote: > I have found that the hard drives need to be the same size because ghost > does a binary copy of the entire. I went from one 40G to another and it > took about an hour. > > > Erin > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lord Raiden [mailto:raiden23@netzero.net] > > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:55 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Ghosting FreeBSD. > > > > > > Ok, short question. Is it possible to use Norton Ghost > > to Ghost a Freebsd > > install A) from one machine to another of similar or > > identical hardware, or > > B) to a machine of entirely different hardware with few if any > > complications or corrections? > > > > Not needing to do this right now, but curious if this > > is possible as a > > mental note for the future in case I want to do it. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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