Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:48:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Fengping Li <fli@post.its.mcw.edu> To: Murray Davis <mgd@converging.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to clone drives? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000919164302.13250D-100000@post.its.mcw.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000919151918.D31349@converging.net>
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I tried the following two methods. Both worked:
Method 1: use Ghost. After that do "dd" command:
/bin/dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=1024k; (4.0 and up)
/bin/dd if=/dev/wd0 of=/dev/wd1 bs=1024k; (before 4.0)
Method 2: use fdisk and disk label after /stand/sysinstall
Good luck!
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Murray Davis wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:19:18 -0600
> From: Murray Davis <mgd@converging.net>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: How to clone drives?
>
> What are the alternatives for cloning drives. I have an old 486 with a
> freebsd build. I want to clone this drive and place the cloned drive in an
> identical build. I have tried Ghost without success. Is there a way to
> clone a drive using FreeBSD: i.e., put destination drive on secondary
> IDE and then replicate/clone the image from the source drive on the
> primary IDE channel?
>
> --
> Murray Davis
> Converging Technology Solutions
> Edmonton, AB
>
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