From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 18:51:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2676137B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([68.82.36.167]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20020222025103.IWRL5710.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:51:03 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Eric I.Arnoth Reply-To: earnoth@comcast.net To: Erin Fortenberry , 'Lord Raiden' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ghosting FreeBSD. Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:48:18 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020222025103.IWRL5710.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> 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 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