From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 18:14:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAC737B400 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0T2Elb92670; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:14:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:14:47 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: jan@localhost To: xw Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Cloning : Advice and help needed In-Reply-To: <20020128183318.BD55.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020128175718.C79959-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, xw wrote: > Ok, here is a FreeBSD newbie question to all the FreeBSD gurus. > > Is it possible to clone a whole PC(running 4.4) to another laptop > running the same version of FreeBSD? yes. > We have an emulator program that runs on the desktop (some special > image processing program which builds upon FreeBSD) but we couldn't > find the source code that our "predecessor" used to install the > emulator program. Wondering if there is any magic way to clone the > whole PC to another..... > > Desktop(Running 4.4 with some) ----clone to --> Laptop(4.4) > (special emulator program) > > Any help and advice would be very much appreciated!! Thanks in > advance! you can "clone" the disk a few ways. the more popular ones are rdist(1), tar(1), and dd(1). these are all fairly well documented. i would HIGHLY suggest you dig up more information on your graphics program first, and see what libraries, dependancies, and binaries it depends on before you do anything. digging up information about what you're messing with, before you play around with copying it is vital, and may save you quite a bit of grief. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message