Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:27:25 +0300 From: Dmitri Pisarev <dimaip@mail.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer. Message-ID: <4402B7ED.8080607@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0602262104t5f47f753wdad4fe25fe3cd1f5@mail.gmail.com> References: <440168D2.2090208@mail.ru> <ef10de9a0602260819o73415255l6d3fe02f67cd6580@mail.gmail.com> <4402145F.7050602@mail.ru> <ef10de9a0602262006i3908640cw26d98b147333fdac@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0602262104t5f47f753wdad4fe25fe3cd1f5@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com wrote: >On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <dimaip@mail.ru> wrote: >> >> >>>Nikolas Britton wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <dimaip@mail.ru> 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. >>>>> >>>>> > >snips > > > huh? what's snips?(I'm a novice:-)) >>>5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the >>>same posible with FreeBSD? >>> >>> >>How do you do it with Linux?... and re-explane how you tired to do it >>with FreeBSD. >> >> > >Loadlin will boot linux from any dos partition, probably ntfs (I haven't >tried that) and you can then fdisk the old windows partition, etc etc. >Might be very tricky, but with a little ingenuity one should be able >to boot linux, dump some freebsd stuff into the former winders partition > > >Hey! I still want to keep my windows partition! >(I'd bet you'd want to use grub for booting, call me old-fashioned) (I just >realised I have no idea how to newfs for ufs in linux, maybe here dd >or dump might work). > >Stream of consciousness: loadlin to linux, qemu to freebsd, > is that really neccesary? isn't there a version of qemu for windows? > mounting >the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd and proceed from there? > Didn't grasp this step completly, sorry. what do you mean by "mounting the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd" ? isn't it the same operation as I have been trying to do already with dd? Re-explain please, if you can. > If it works, >you're the bee's knees. If you fail, though, you may never boot again, >which is why I would suggest keeping a linux partition (slice) and grub >working until you know it works. >In any case it sounds quite dangerous. Proceed with caution. > >Could loadlin be rewritten to work with any kernel? has it been? > >-- >-- > > > >
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