Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
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. -- 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. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for the wonderful advice! Had no idea of that feature before! Now everything works as it's supposed to. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. The simple way would be to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adaptor. Pull the drive out of the laptop and put it in your desktop to Install FreeBSD. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=2.5%203.5%20IDE%20Adapter Thank you for the reply! I have already been replacing my HDD once, and it's a real problem for me to disassemble it, takes hell of a lot of time, so I would like to avoid it. So, is there a way to clone partition from one system to another and make it work? Also, does anyone know, will my laptop netboot(PXE or smth?) from Xircom 100/10 PCMCIA adapter? Will the BIOS let you do this? Do you mean the netcard BIOS or the motherboard BIOS? In system BIOS there's an option to boot from network. I have no idea what booting capabilities(PXE, netboot) my network card supports, 'll try to figure it out somehow. Here's a list of posible ways I'm considering to installing freebsd on to my laptop: 1)Buy the toshiba floppy drive(difficult to find in russia...). Any USB Floppy Drive should work. Ha! I wish! Portege's only recognise their own booting peripherals as boot devices((( As I was told at least... 2)Boot over the network. 3)Pull the drive out and install BSD on the desktop. 4)Clone partition somehow?? 5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the same posible with FreeBSD? How do you do it with Linux?... and re-explane how you tired to do it with FreeBSD. Tool called loading lets you do it. Somebody already has replied. and re-explane how you tired to do it with FreeBSD. 1)downloaded tool dd for windows. 2)on desktop issued the following: dd.exe if=//?/mydrive_bsdparition(don't remember the syntaxis) of=g:\image.img 3)copy the image file over wi-fi to my laptop. 4)on laptop, use dd once again: dd.exe if=c:\image.img of=//?/mydrive_mydesiredbsdpartition. 5)tried to boot newly copied partition using Bootmagic and got Boot error. Could Bootmagic be the problem?? -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. snips huh? what's snips?(I'm a novice:-)) 5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the same posible with FreeBSD? How do you do it with Linux?... and re-explane how you tired to do it with FreeBSD. Loadlin will boot linux from any dos partition, probably ntfs (I haven't tried that) and you can then fdisk the old windows partition, etc etc. Might be very tricky, but with a little ingenuity one should be able to boot linux, dump some freebsd stuff into the former winders partition Hey! I still want to keep my windows partition! (I'd bet you'd want to use grub for booting, call me old-fashioned) (I just realised I have no idea how to newfs for ufs in linux, maybe here dd or dump might work). Stream of consciousness: loadlin to linux, qemu to freebsd, is that really neccesary? isn't there a version of qemu for windows? mounting the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd and proceed from there? Didn't grasp this step completly, sorry. what do you mean by mounting the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd ? isn't it the same operation as I have been trying to do already with dd? Re-explain please, if you can. If it works, you're the bee's knees. If you fail, though, you may never boot again, which is why I would suggest keeping a linux partition (slice) and grub working until you know it works. In any case it sounds quite dangerous. Proceed with caution. Could loadlin be rewritten to work with any kernel? has it been? -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
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. The simple way would be to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adaptor. Pull the drive out of the laptop and put it in your desktop to Install FreeBSD. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=2.5%203.5%20IDE%20Adapter -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for the reply! I have already been replacing my HDD once, and it's a real problem for me to disassemble it, takes hell of a lot of time, so I would like to avoid it. So, is there a way to clone partition from one system to another and make it work? Also, does anyone know, will my laptop netboot(PXE or smth?) from Xircom 100/10 PCMCIA adapter? Here's a list of posible ways I'm considering to installing freebsd on to my laptop: 1)Buy the toshiba floppy drive(difficult to find in russia...). 2)Boot over the network. 3)Pull the drive out and install BSD on the desktop. 4)Clone partition somehow?? 5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the same posible with FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
