From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 10:12:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.slightlystrange.org (icarus.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196F837B402 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from danielby by icarus.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nO5n-0000y8-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:12:15 +0000 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:12:15 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy an image file on a ls120 disk to another? Message-ID: <20020319181215.A3462@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020319095412.816E.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com> <20020319185808.A4580@goku.kasby> <20020319120538.817C.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020319120538.817C.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com>; from xiaowu23@yahoo.com on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0600 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 In that case, you will need to copy the image to your hard disk, change LS120 disk, then write the image file back. I would use dd for both stages. Of course, none of this is necessary if you have another LS120 drive! ;-) HTH Dan On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0600, xw wrote: > Thanks a lot for the pointer. > > But what should I do if I want to copy a LS120 disk to another? > Not from HD to LS120. > > Thanks again. > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:58:08 +0100 > Francesco Casadei wrote: > > Francesco> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:05:57AM -0600, xw wrote: > Francesco> > A super newbie question. Please help. > Francesco> > > Francesco> > I have two ls120 disks, one is a bootdisk and another containing > Francesco> > an image file. I want to make a backup copy of each on new ls120 > Francesco> > disks. Is there any command that I can use for this purpose? > Francesco> > Or do I need any special program? > Francesco> > > Francesco> > Any help and advice would be very much appreciated!! Thank you. > Francesco> > > Francesco> > > Francesco> > _________________________________________________________ > Francesco> > Do You Yahoo!? > Francesco> > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > Francesco> > > Francesco> > > Francesco> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > Francesco> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Francesco> > > Francesco> > end of the original message > Francesco> > Francesco> Read the section 12.11 "Backups to Floppies" of the handbook. You can view the > Francesco> online version at: > Francesco> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html > Francesco> > Francesco> Use /dev/afd0 instead of /dev/fd0 (i.e. the LS-120 instead of the floppy > Francesco> drive). > Francesco> > Francesco> Francesco Casadei > Francesco> -- > Francesco> You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ > Francesco> or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) > Francesco> > Francesco> Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B > Francesco> > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > 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