From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 9: 5:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.marketwatchmail.com (mail.marketwatchmail.com [206.146.143.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C555E37B419 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7819 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2002 17:53:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jaustadw2k) (206.147.106.71) by mail.marketwatchmail.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 17:53:44 -0000 From: "Jay Austad" To: Subject: RE: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:05:32 -0600 Message-ID: <54180709DD3FE145917BB165AFE7EFA002E0D351@mspexch2.office.mktw.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > -----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 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