From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 10:37:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD9116A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:37:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 531F843D46 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:37:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: (qmail 78825 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2006 10:59:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (iavor.raytchev@verysmall.org@212.144.218.94) by thing.verysmall.org with SMTP; 27 Feb 2006 10:59:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4402D660.7070003@verysmall.org> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:37:20 +0100 From: "pobox@verysmall.org" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitri Pisarev References: <440168D2.2090208@mail.ru> <4402145F.7050602@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <4402145F.7050602@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:37:34 -0000 Dmitri Pisarev wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev wrote: >> >> >>> I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting >>> from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running >>> FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). >>> I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. >>> The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition to the >>> laptop computer somehow, so it would remain bootable? I tried to copy my >>> ad0s2(my BSD partition) to ad0s3 on laptop, using dd.exe for windows, >>> and all i get is "Boot error". I'm using freebsd bootloader on desktop, >>> and BootMagic on laptop, could that be a problem? >>> any help or suggestions are appreciated. I had the same problem (ThinkPad X30) - which I solved in a great way with VMware (www.vmware.com). Speed of FreeBSD is about 80% compared to native installation and stability is so far (2-3 months) rock solid. You can do a minimal install within VMware, then mount the desktop drive (via the network) and do dump/restore. Iv