From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 10: 8:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (ip-46-094.guate.net [200.12.46.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F51B11585 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02132; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:12:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:12:34 -0600 (CST) From: Oscar Bonilla Message-Id: <199902221812.MAA02132@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, marti259@pilot.msu.edu Subject: Re: cloning disks In-Reply-To: <199902220125.UAA28862@pilot007.cl.msu.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you can use disklabel(8) to install the boot bocks... one thing about clonning tho, i wouldn't use tar to do that... i would use dump(8) and restore(8). regards, -oscar > 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