Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 11:39:18 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> To: Qingyue Shirley Wang <qingyue@cs.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk imaging Message-ID: <389F65B6.519211B9@S1.com> References: <055A195871E5D1119F8100A0C9499B5FCDF4CC@exchsrv1.cs.washington.edu>
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G'day Shirley, > > I need to package up a disk image (basically a sector-by-sector copy > and > then compressed) so that it can be cloned to another machine with the > same > hardware configurations. Is there any tool available that will > accomplish > this task? What is the best way to do it? yup - check out 'dd' (man dd) and 'gzip' (man gzip). dd is a standard tool, you may need to install gzip from the ports - or you can use the standard 'compress', which isn't as "good" as gzip, but does an ok job of compressing files anyway. hth, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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