Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:36:09 +0000 From: "Dimitri T" <midiostri@hotmail.com> To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk Message-ID: <LAW2-F1125EsYTPFY0t0000784e@hotmail.com>
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well, thanks for the info Jack :) i think that i'll ghost the Win98 partitions (which seems to work ok) and then reinstall FBSD on the remaining third partition.. it seems to be the easiest way after all :) greetings, dimitri >From: jacks@sage-american.com >To: "Dimitri T" <midiostri@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Ghosting a Win98/FBSD hard disk >Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:23:05 -0600 > >Aha...! Good luck on this one. I've been looking for that solution too and >wouldn't it be nice to be able to just switch hard disks in BIOS and boot >from the second one if and when HD1 goes down? ...avoiding the much longer >"restore" methods. > >From what I have found, the closest thing is RAID Mirroring, but you need >to have SCSIs and a RAID hardware adapter to do that as IDE RAID is not >supported in FBSD. My motherboards support IDE RAID, but again cannot be >used in FBSD. > >Vinum does a parital job of mirroring from what I read about it. Alas, it >doesn't mirror the root, so another backup is required for that portion and >thus no immediate switch of HDs and reboot as in first paragraph above. > >I'm still looking at rsync as another partical option. Let me know if you >find another option that does the "image" thing or mirrors. > >At 10:02 AM 1.16.2002 +0000, Dimitri T wrote: > >hi, > > > >i have 8 PCs with identical hardware. They all have a hard disk of 20Gb. > >I've set up one of them as follows: > > 1 Win 98 primary partition (16 Gb) > > 1 Win 98 partition for storage purposes (1 Gb) > > 1 Freebsd partition (3 Gb) > > > >i thought that i'd spare a lot of time and trouble if i could ghost the >hard > >disks. i have run Norton Ghost but it hasn't worked properly. > >When describing the original disk it marks the fbsd partition file system >as > >'unknown' and after ghosting, when i try to boot the fbsd partition on >the > >destination disk, i get a "no ufs".. > > > >my Q: > >is it possible to ghost such a hard disk with Norton Ghost? > >if not, is there some other ghost program that can do the job? > > > >any pointer/info would be appreciated, > >thanks a lot, > >dimitri > > > >PS > plz. CC any reply to me directly as i am currently off the list > >:) > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > >Best regards, >Jack L. Stone, >Server Admin > >=================================================== >Sage-American >http://www.sage-american.com >jacks@sage-american.com > >"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; >....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" >=================================================== _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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