From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 7:39:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Quetico.tbaytel.net (Quetico.tbaytel.net [206.47.150.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E56110E8D for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pmg@Quetico.tbaytel.net) Received: from morgan (Rockcliffe71.tbaytel.net [207.236.147.117]) by Quetico.tbaytel.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA20646; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:24:43 -0500 Message-ID: <36D17A76.62F9@mail.tbaytel.net> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:40:38 -0500 From: pmg Reply-To: pmg@Quetico.tbaytel.net Organization: pmg X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-KIT (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Richard Martinez Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning disks References: <199902220125.UAA28862@pilot007.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi brian, try a man on nextboot. (it was installboot on SunOS and older BSD systems.) fbaggins Brian Richard Martinez wrote: > > Hello, > Presently we are making attendence servers for the university using FreeBSD's > kernel, and in order to simplfy the process, we are looking to clone the disk. > We already do Linux clones for our print servers, and so we are pretty sure we > have the cloning process down. (tarring up the files, and then untarring them > to the other disk) Since, we (think we) have this down, the only thing left is > how do you make the newly cloned drive bootable. In Linux we just boot with a > LILO boot disk, and at the boot: prompt we type mount root=/dev/hda1 And then > log in as root, and type LILO to install LILO. But seeing as FreeBSD doesn't > use LILO, but rather Bootstrap, how do we go about doing this? Also, if we are > actually unclear on the cloning process, if someone could kindly inform us of > this as well. Thank you very much for your time! > ./brm > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message