Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:12:43 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: kjerste soderberg <kjerstes@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net>, Robert Gray <bob@cs.colorado.edu> Subject: Re: cloning laptop drives Message-ID: <XFMail.20010929121243.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010928163546.43871.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 28-Sep-2001 kjerste soderberg wrote: > 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) I assume by mounting you don't mean 'mount /dev/adX /blah'... > Install the buffer port, then as root do; > buffer -s 32k -S 1m </dev/ad1 >/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 don't know what the buffer port does, but I suspect it does something similar to dd.. You don't need to do both. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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