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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: kjerste soderberg <kjerstes@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: cloning laptop drives
Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net>,
	Robert Gray <bob@cs.colorado.edu>
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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.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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