Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:18:06 +0000 From: Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd as an imaging solution. Message-ID: <20070205101806.b45f4118.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45C52C3E.8040204@elgia.com> References: <45C52C3E.8040204@elgia.com>
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On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:43:42 -0500 Sean Bryant <sbryant@elgia.com> wrote: > Several months ago I was using Freesbie 1.x to dd a harddrive across the > network as a drive duplication effort. This worked 7 computers got the > image. I'm trying to do this again so I got the new Freesbie release 2.0 > and fired it up across the computers and tried something simple such as: > > dd if=/dev/ad0 bs=1m | nc othercomputer 10000 on the image provider > > nc -l 10000 | dd of=/dev/ad0 bs=1m on the computer to receive the image. > > I received an operation not permitted. My first thought was they must be > mounted. a quick check, and it seems they weren't. > Next, am I really root? And sure enough I was. After a bit of discussion > in #freesbie on freenode got me to set kern.geom.debugflags to 16 and I > was able to write to ad0 like I had previously done. Yet when I tried to > write to an individual slice I was presented with the same error. > > Anyone have any clue ? The eventual goal is to have a mass imaging all > at once with dd, nc and tee Check out G4U (NetBSD based) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Dominic
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