Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dmitri Pisarev wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD).
I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer.
The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition to the
laptop computer somehow, so it would remain bootable? I tried to copy my
ad0s2(my BSD partition) to ad0s3 on laptop, using dd.exe for windows,
and all i get is "Boot error". I'm using freebsd bootloader on desktop,
and BootMagic on laptop, could that be a problem?
any help or suggestions are appreciated.
I had the same problem (ThinkPad X30) - which I solved in a great way
with VMware (www.vmware.com). Speed of FreeBSD is about 80% compared to
native installation and stability is so far (2-3 months) rock solid.
You can do a minimal install within VMware, then mount the desktop drive
(via the network) and do dump/restore.
Better yet... use pqmagic to resize / setup the disk (if not already
done). Then in Windows Install and run VMware Workstation 5:
Click on File > New > Virtual Machine.
Click Next.
Select Custom.
Click Next.
Select Other, Version: FreeBSD
Click Next.
Click Next.
Click Next.
Click Next.
Select Use a physical disk.
Click Ok
Select Usage: Use individual partitions
Doesn't work. Had to use entire disk instead.
Select Partition you want FreeBSD installed on.
Click Finish.
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Click on "Edit virtual machine settings"
Select "CD-ROM (IDE 1:0)", Change "Connection" to "Use ISO Image"
(If "CD-ROM (IDE 1:0)" is not in the list then click on Add, Next,
"DVD/CD-ROM Drive", select "Use ISO image")
Click on Browse
Find and Select: 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso
Click on ok.
Click on "start this virtual machine".
Install FreeBSD. (select "use boot loader" when asked)
FreeBSD should now be installed on your disk.
Reboot and Configure BootMagic, pointing it to FreeBSD partition.
Boot into FreeBSD.
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Thank you for the wonderful advice! Had no idea of that feature before!
Now everything works as it's supposed to.
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