From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 02:10:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF4516A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C333843D1F for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 14702 invoked by uid 505); 18 Jan 2004 10:15:29 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.301166 secs); 18 Jan 2004 10:15:29 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 18 Jan 2004 10:15:28 -0000 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:14:28 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Stephen Hoover In-Reply-To: <000901c3dd8d$75f036b0$8202a8c0@cutlass442> Message-ID: <20040118110136.N735@pukruppa.net> References: <200401152000.00111.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com><20040116032014.GC93061@grimoire.chen.org.nz><20040116081028.GA2485@ergo.nruns.com> <000901c3dd8d$75f036b0$8202a8c0@cutlass442> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:10:20 -0000 On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Stephen Hoover wrote: > I know the topic of "ghosting" a FreeBSD box is discussed on here from time > to time. > > I just wanted to let everyone know I had a success using Ghost 7 on my > current setup. I cloned it from a Dell PowerEdge 2450 to a generic desktop > with same drive configuration (2 SCSI drives in each). I used Ghost to do a > sector copy on each individual harddrive. > > All I had to do to get it rolling was boot to the GENERIC kernel, as the one > I configured for the Dell server was SMP. Everything seemed to come up and > work fine. It even saw additional drive space on the new machine, as the > harddrives were slightly bigger. > > Just thought this was some good information for the list. > > Stephen Hoover > Dallas, Texas In case you have time to work it out and you can live with some small bugs, there is a very promising OpenSource project on http://www.sysresccd.org SystemRescueCD is a bootable CD based on Gentoo-Linux. It can - manage partitions - mirror partitions - set up connections to nfs and samba servers via network - ntfs and ufs support is declared as experimental by the authors but seems to work on my home-network Regards, Uli. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+