From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 14:48:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.its.mcw.edu (post.its.mcw.edu [141.106.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1650A37B43C for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by post.its.mcw.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA16416; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:48:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:48:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Fengping Li To: Murray Davis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to clone drives? In-Reply-To: <20000919151918.D31349@converging.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried the following two methods. Both worked: Method 1: use Ghost. After that do "dd" command: /bin/dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=1024k; (4.0 and up) /bin/dd if=/dev/wd0 of=/dev/wd1 bs=1024k; (before 4.0) Method 2: use fdisk and disk label after /stand/sysinstall Good luck! On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Murray Davis wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:19:18 -0600 > From: Murray Davis > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: How to clone drives? > > What are the alternatives for cloning drives. I have an old 486 with a > freebsd build. I want to clone this drive and place the cloned drive in an > identical build. I have tried Ghost without success. Is there a way to > clone a drive using FreeBSD: i.e., put destination drive on secondary > IDE and then replicate/clone the image from the source drive on the > primary IDE channel? > > -- > Murray Davis > Converging Technology Solutions > Edmonton, AB > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message