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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:40:38 -0500
From:      pmg <pmg@Quetico.tbaytel.net>
To:        Brian Richard Martinez <marti259@pilot.msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cloning disks
Message-ID:  <36D17A76.62F9@mail.tbaytel.net>
References:  <199902220125.UAA28862@pilot007.cl.msu.edu>

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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
> 
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