Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:05:32 -0600 From: "Jay Austad" <austad@marketwatch.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk Message-ID: <54180709DD3FE145917BB165AFE7EFA002E0D351@mspexch2.office.mktw.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: swear@blarg.net [mailto:swear@blarg.net] > I think you should be able to just do something like "dd if=/dev/ad0 > of=/dev/ad1". At least that sort of thing was said to work on Linux, > IIRC. The closest I've come to doing that is: 1) copying a Win95 > (FAT16?) raw partition to another disk's raw partition from Linux, and This works great. I cloned 5 FreeBSD boxes using this method about a month ago. It clones the MBR and partition table also, so no need to repartition or anything. You just have to make sure you are cloning to an identical disk, or a disk of a larger size. bs=2048k will speed things up also. I've also cloned several linux boxes over the network using the following method: Grab Toms Rootboot disk from http://www.toms.net. Boot the source and target machines with it and use ifconfig to get the network up. On the target machine, type "nc -l -p 3333 -n > /dev/sda". On the source machine, do "cat /dev/sda | nc -n <targetaddress> 3333". This clones everything including the MBR and partition table. It will take awhile though. I think it took me about an hour for a 9GB drive. Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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