From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 26 20:49:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 9841716A420 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:49:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimaip@mail.ru) Received: from mx5.mail.ru (mx5.mail.ru [194.67.23.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30E343D6A for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:49:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimaip@mail.ru) Received: from [213.87.88.4] (port=56697 helo=[10.4.1.160]) by mx5.mail.ru with asmtp id 1FDSpJ-0007Py-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:49:11 +0300 Message-ID: <4402145F.7050602@mail.ru> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:49:35 +0300 From: Dmitri Pisarev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <440168D2.2090208@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:49:14 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: >On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev wrote: > > >>I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting >>from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running >>FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). >>I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. >>The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition to the >>laptop computer somehow, so it would remain bootable? I tried to copy my >>ad0s2(my BSD partition) to ad0s3 on laptop, using dd.exe for windows, >>and all i get is "Boot error". I'm using freebsd bootloader on desktop, >>and BootMagic on laptop, could that be a problem? >>any help or suggestions are appreciated. >> >> > >The simple way would be to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adaptor. Pull the >drive out of the laptop and put it in your desktop to Install FreeBSD. > >http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=2.5%203.5%20IDE%20Adapter > > >-- >BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ >_______________________________________________ >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" > > > > Thank you for the reply! I have already been replacing my HDD once, and it's a real problem for me to disassemble it, takes hell of a lot of time, so I would like to avoid it. So, is there a way to clone partition from one system to another and make it work? Also, does anyone know, will my laptop netboot(PXE or smth?) from Xircom 100/10 PCMCIA adapter? Here's a list of posible ways I'm considering to installing freebsd on to my laptop: 1)Buy the toshiba floppy drive(difficult to find in russia...). 2)Boot over the network. 3)Pull the drive out and install BSD on the desktop. 4)Clone partition somehow?? 5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the same posible with FreeBSD?