From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 13:18:06 2005 Return-Path: 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 5A77316A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:18:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0AA43D5A for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:18:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [10.10.11.16] (unknown [131.175.54.146]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE610FD01F; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:18:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4208BC04.9010204@locolomo.org> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:17:56 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050127 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John References: <20050208070846.A13935@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050208070846.A13935@starfire.mn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:18:06 -0000 John wrote: > OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) > that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop > environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my > laptop. :( > > I have used dump(8) to dump out my filesystems. I am wondering > if I can just use "dd" to dump out all of /dev/ad0s1 also, > and then use "dd" to put it back again when I'm done. Then > I'd boot the installation CD into "fixit" mode, build a new > MBR, make sure that the new s1 was the same or very slightly larger > than the old s1, and use dd to put it back again. Can anyone > speak to either the "doomed to failure" or "I've done this and > it works" scenarios? Not doomed, but don't expect to read data on other than FBSD systems. This is described in the handbook under using removable media (CD/DVD) for backups. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2