From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 12:52:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA25952 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:52:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from MediaCity.Com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA25946 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.Com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id MAA09907; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:58:01 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199603272058.MAA09907@MediaCity.Com> Subject: Re: How to bulk duplicate hard drives? To: hdalog@zipnet.net Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:58:00 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603271106.GAA05037@hda.com> from Peter Dufault at "Mar 27, 96 06:06:08 am" Reply-To: brian@MediaCity.Com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > [brian wrote] > > Long ago, I used to > > dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1024k > > to duplicate a drive. However, this no longer works. > > What is the right way, if any, to duplicate an entire drive > > under FreeBSD 2.2-current? Peter Dufault wrote: > What happens? I do the dd in single user mode. The bootmanager does not get copied. When I boot the "new" drive, I have removed the source one and changed the new drives SCSI ID to the same ID that the source drive was using. When I boot it comes up right into FreeBSD and the paritions don't seem to match and I get all kinds of errors. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD http[s]://www.mpress.com