Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:12:34 -0600 (CST) From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, marti259@pilot.msu.edu Subject: Re: cloning disks Message-ID: <199902221812.MAA02132@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <199902220125.UAA28862@pilot007.cl.msu.edu>
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you can use disklabel(8) to install the boot bocks... one thing about clonning tho, i wouldn't use tar to do that... i would use dump(8) and restore(8). regards, -oscar > Hello, > Presently we are making attendence servers for the university using FreeBSD's > kernel, and in order to simplfy the process, we are looking to clone the disk. > We already do Linux clones for our print servers, and so we are pretty sure we > have the cloning process down. (tarring up the files, and then untarring them > to the other disk) Since, we (think we) have this down, the only thing left is > how do you make the newly cloned drive bootable. In Linux we just boot with a > LILO boot disk, and at the boot: prompt we type mount root=/dev/hda1 And then > log in as root, and type LILO to install LILO. But seeing as FreeBSD doesn't > use LILO, but rather Bootstrap, how do we go about doing this? Also, if we are > actually unclear on the cloning process, if someone could kindly inform us of > this as well. Thank you very much for your time! > ./brm > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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