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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:38:54 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: the new DS10-L 
Message-ID:  <200003102338.PAA01199@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:41:33 EST." <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2D1F@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> 

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> I new it was too good to be true.
> Looks like we are back to the drawing board unless i am having a brain
> cramp.
> 
> The ISO image that worked so well on the XP1000 does not work on the new
> "slate" systems.
>
> I have two internal 9 gig scsi drives. atwo nics, one qlogic and an external
> cdrom/floppy hanging out of the box plugged into the onboard ide controller.
> 
> Any chance that someone out there has done a slate install successfully?

I don't think anyone even knew about these systems until you mentioned 
them.  Can you be more specific about "doesn't work"?

> I gave up on making the clone as I don't have the time to sit there and
> newfs partitions etc.
> I had hoped that FreeBSD supported "dd" At least to just get the system up
> and running.

dd'ing between identical disks works fine (I do it on a regular basis 
here).  You can get bitten if you have something on the second disk that 
looks like a slice table/partition table because the disklabel code is 
trying to protect you from yourself, but in the typical case:

 dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1m

you shouldn't run into any problems at all.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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