From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 28 9:35:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from web9708.mail.yahoo.com (web9708.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.128.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EB3F37B40C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20010928163546.43871.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [141.154.35.42] by web9708.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:35:46 PDT Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:35:46 -0700 (PDT) From: kjerste soderberg Subject: Re: cloning laptop drives To: Robert Gray , Daniel O'Connor Cc: Edwin Culp , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, kjerste soderberg In-Reply-To: <200109281418.IAA30085@calypso.boulderlabs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok then Thanx for ALL the great advice here, From what I'm getting from all your instructions here's what I'll be doing for these laptops. Mounting drives in another machine source=/dev/ad1 target=/dev/ad2 target=/dev/ad3 (I'll be mounting 2 targets at a time until all 20 or so drives are finished) Install the buffer port, then as root do; buffer -s 32k -S 1m /dev/ad2 (for target ad2 and would I chg the 32k to 1024k for a 1meg buffer?) then; dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/ad2 bs=1024k I put ad1 on primary ide channel and ad2 &3 on sec ide channel. I hit 'ctrl-t' to get info on dd progress and I can do in separate term systat -vmstat 1 and I look at the bottom section for me to see the transfer speeds. Again I'm just confirming your instructions to see if I got it right .. Thanx again. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message