Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:08:03 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ghost prog for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200009102210.PAA14783@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000910223442.F274@hades.hell.gr> References: <39BAB976.C53CBB30@mediaone.net> <39BAB976.C53CBB30@mediaone.net>
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At 10:34 PM 9/10/00 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >[-- copying disks the freebsd way --] > >What I usually do, when I have to transfer an installation of BSD to >another disk / partition is: > >1. Create the slices / labels on the second disk. >2. Mount them under /mnt. >3. Use cpio(1) to copy the files from / to /mnt. >4. Use boot0cfg on the new disk to set up the boot loader on it. >5. Reboot into the new installation. [...] Wouldn't a dd of the whole disk to another, same-sized disk, pretty much do the same thing though? Something to the order of dd if=/dev/wd0 of=/dev/wd1 bs=1024 should do the trick, no? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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