From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 16: 2:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DC337B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C65943E86 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from ethel (ethel.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8UMo1A32145 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:50:01 -0700 Message-ID: <020f01c268d5$75316790$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: References: <3.0.5.32.20020930155536.028ece30@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20020930155536.028ece30@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20020930173951.028ece30@mail.sage-one.net> Subject: Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive? Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:02:32 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> >Hi all! > >> > > >> > Can I use something like > >> > > >> >dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 Yes. This will work fine. > NO! An entire image is taken of the ad0 and no labeling is necessary. It is > bootable already. > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Administrator I agree with Jack. However, if you want to boot from it as "ad1" or whatever, I think you'll have to tweak your bootloader settings a little bit. Right? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message