From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 5 10:18:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D23616A401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [195.12.22.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAAC13C461 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24E9114020 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:18:08 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at graphdata.co.uk Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xwfTzq7VuLeG for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:18:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gdc083.internal.graphdata.co.uk (gdc083.internal.graphdata.co.uk [192.168.0.86]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DE9C114023 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:18:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:18:06 +0000 From: Dominic Marks To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070205101806.b45f4118.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45C52C3E.8040204@elgia.com> References: <45C52C3E.8040204@elgia.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: dd as an imaging solution. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:18:10 -0000 On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:43:42 -0500 Sean Bryant 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