Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System
FreeBSD-Utah skrev: I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD installation / system. This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” - Once that installation is complete with selected ports and custom applications, I want to make an exact duplicate of “System A” on “System B” I don’t want to do this with drives in the same system, rather I would like to “clone” “System A” Also, it would be nice to be able to do this as a “mirroring” solution to keep a clone over time of the system in the case of failure of either “System A” or “System B” Is this possible to do? If so, any direction on how I would do this would be welcome. Is there a port / application that enables this? Thank you in advance! Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I use rsync to mirror and freevrrpd for failover via heartbeat. Freevrrpd should be in ports. Freevrrpd gives both systems the same virtual ip so you will need to avoid rsyncing the configuration file for it. There is a nice feature that makes you trigger a script when one system goes down to initialize configurations on the system taking over. Mind you, if you are using firewall as part of the system you will need to alias the interfaces and use dns names in configuration files. Just my nickels worth /R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System
This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as System A and System B - I want to install FreeBSD on to System A - Once that installation is complete with selected ports and custom applications, I want to make an exact duplicate of System A on System B I dont want to do this with drives in the same system, rather I would like to clone System A run liveCD on system B, make partitions as you like, newfs, mount as needed under say /mnt (like /mnt, /mnt/usr etc), set up network and do cd /mnt rsh -l root IP_of_systemA "tar --one-file-system -cf - / /usr /othermountpoint /anothermointpoint"|tar xpf - cd / umount /mnt make sure you did bsdlabel -B yourfirstdrive on systema activate rshd and add ip of systemb to .rhosts in /root, at least temporarily. keep machines in sync with rsync, prepare your rsync script, exclude list etc etc.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 22:43:31 FreeBSD-Utah wrote: > I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD > installation / system. > > This environment will have two identical / separate > systems referred to as System A and System B > > - I want to install FreeBSD on to System A > - Once that installation is complete with selected > ports and custom applications, I want to make an exact > duplicate of System A on System B > > I dont want to do this with drives in the same > system, rather I would like to clone System A > > Also, it would be nice to be able to do this as a > mirroring solution to keep a clone over time of the > system in the case of failure of either System A or > System B > > Is this possible to do? If so, any direction on how I > would do this would be welcome. Install A, then B very minimal and rsync them (port: net/rsync). This assumes a network between the two with different ip addresses :) > Is there a port / application that enables this? Pending your needs, you could try sysutils/heartbeat. But for periodical syncs, rsync should do fine. The tricky part will be /etc/rc.conf, since you'll need to differentiate the IP's. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System
I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD installation / system. This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as System A and System B - I want to install FreeBSD on to System A - Once that installation is complete with selected ports and custom applications, I want to make an exact duplicate of System A on System B I dont want to do this with drives in the same system, rather I would like to clone System A Also, it would be nice to be able to do this as a mirroring solution to keep a clone over time of the system in the case of failure of either System A or System B Is this possible to do? If so, any direction on how I would do this would be welcome. Is there a port / application that enables this? Thank you in advance! Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Process for cloning freebsd
In response to "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I intend to clone a master freebsd box (6.1-stable) so that I can roll boxes > as fast as possible. These won't be identical machines btw. This comes up > from time to time, but I wanted to specifically check security concerns and > other things. > > What sensitive information may be copied that must be removed/regenerated? > For example, ssh keys. How would these be regenerated (like the screenful of > junk with a new install)? /etc/rc.d/sshd has the commands that are used to accomplish that. It's just making sure there is enough entropy in /dev/random, then using ssh-keygen. > Are there any other similar security issues? How about any other unexpected > problems? I'm thinking I only need to change the hostname I've done this -- haven't had any problems that I can remember. > I was planning to Ghost the harddrives. Anything that allows you duplicate the HDD will work. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Process for cloning freebsd
Hello all, I intend to clone a master freebsd box (6.1-stable) so that I can roll boxes as fast as possible. These won't be identical machines btw. This comes up from time to time, but I wanted to specifically check security concerns and other things. What sensitive information may be copied that must be removed/regenerated? For example, ssh keys. How would these be regenerated (like the screenful of junk with a new install)? Are there any other similar security issues? How about any other unexpected problems? I'm thinking I only need to change the hostname I was planning to Ghost the harddrives. Cheers Gary ___ 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 2/27/06, [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.
On 2/27/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > 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 > That should be disc 1, sorry: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso ___ 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.
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 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]"
Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
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. Iv ___ 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]"
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.
On 2/26/06, Jordan Mendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if a similar tool exists for the > BSD bootloader, but there might be one. man 8 boot0cfg http://tinyurl.com/jsyuz (assuming I can type, which I cannot afford to do) -- -- ___ 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.
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 > > 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 (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, mounting the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd and proceed from there? 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]"
Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
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? > 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. > 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. -- 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]"
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]"
Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.
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]"
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 installations
On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:34, Peter wrote: Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. "The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/ rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko Try the Frisbee package: http://www.emulab.net/software.php3 For what you need, it should be very easy to figure out how to use Frisbee from the README. Frisbee is very fast at distributing OS images (read the USENIX paper on it, if you're sufficiently interested), and scales extremely well when sending out an image to multiple clients at once. -Marshall Pierce
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
Peter Macko wrote > Hi all, > > I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to > clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. > I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. "The script copies the MBR > and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies > data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is > edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." > > Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? > > Thanks a lot, > Peter Macko Hi Peter I use G4U from http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ quite a bit for backup's and cloning It's very easy to setup and use If you choose to go with G4U, take note of the advantages of "Zeroing" out unused blocks as it makes a HUGE difference in backup file size I talk about this in sickening detail on this page :-) http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/partimage.html#22 I hope this helps Namaste Steve Quinn __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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 installations
Peter wrote: Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. "The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko You can also use ghost4unix, check www.feyrer.de/g4u ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Cloning FreeBSD installations
Hi all, I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. "The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko ___ 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 installations?
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to set up several identical machines (identical hardware > both in terms of processor, harddisk, LAN etc.) with FreeBSD 4.9. The > only difference between these machines is they're running under > different IP-addresses - all the rest (kernel, software,...) should be > identical. > I suggest you probably also want different host names. I had a similar task to create clones of a machine 'phoenix00' as machines 'phoenix01' to 'phoenix14' for which I wrote (and used) the attached script. The original machine had ip 192.168.3.237 and the clones were to have ip addresses in the range 192.168.3.211 to 192.168.3.249 The original system is in partitions ad0s1a, ad0s1e, ad0s1f and ads1g with swap on ad01b. To use the script attach the (identical) drive to as ad1 to 'phoenix00' and call the script (as root):- (There is no secondary IDE port on the machines in question which might have been somewhat faster) # ./clone.sh ip mach where ip is the last group for the required ip and mach is the numeric part of the clone host name 'phoenixNN'. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Plug the cloned disk into the new machine (as ad0) and it should boot without problems (remembering to fix master/slave links on the disk). Adapt, use and enjoy. > In order to keep installation effort at a minimum I'm looking for a > way to "clone" FreeBSD installations from one machine to another. > > To be specific: > > o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one "over the net", > i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then > setting up the other machines from that image? > Probably but would need more preparatory work. > o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire > FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the > harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then > copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) > I don't know Knoppix but if you have large disks any literal byte to byte disk copying will take quite a while. Should also be possible with dd but if the source is mounted rw at the time the copy will not appear to be clean when booted in the new machine. Malcolm Kay___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Hi ewald, o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one "over the net", i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then setting up the other machines from that image? http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) If the disks are indeed identical, set up one disk the way you like; boot into single user mode (boot -s) and dd away (as in `dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=[whatever]`). Maybe experiment a bit with dd's block size. I've had great results with Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40Gb disks and a blocksize of 512k. Takes about 15 minutes. If you're indeed running IDE disks, put both disks on their own IDE controller. HTH... Nico ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Hi, I'm about to set up several identical machines (identical hardware both in terms of processor, harddisk, LAN etc.) with FreeBSD 4.9. The only difference between these machines is they're running under different IP-addresses - all the rest (kernel, software,...) should be identical. In order to keep installation effort at a minimum I'm looking for a way to "clone" FreeBSD installations from one machine to another. To be specific: o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one "over the net", i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then setting up the other machines from that image? o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) Anybody sucessfully tried cloning installations like this? TIA for your help, -ewald ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Cloning FreeBSD
> > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote: > > At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: > > > 23 > > >Jul 02 > > > > > >Dear Sir/Ma'am > > > > > > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very > > >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard > > >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning > > >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy > > >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. > > > > > >Regards > > >Markus R Bertel > > > > > See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy > > to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). > > What device name would I use? Let's say I have two SCSI drives. Would I > use /dev/da0 and /dev/da1, or /dev/da0s1 and /dev/da1s1? How are they normally mounted? Use that or preferably either raid mirroring for a complete mirror or dump/restore for backups. jerry > > -- > > Gary Dunn > Open Slate Project > http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ > Honolulu > registered Linux user #273809 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Cloning FreeBSD
At 11:32 AM 7.23.2002 -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: >On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote: >> At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: >> >23 >> >Jul 02 >> > >> >Dear Sir/Ma'am >> > >> > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very >> >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard >> >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning >> >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy >> >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. >> > >> >Regards >> >Markus R Bertel >> > >> See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy >> to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). > >What device name would I use? Let's say I have two SCSI drives. Would I >use /dev/da0 and /dev/da1, or /dev/da0s1 and /dev/da1s1? > >-- > > Gary Dunn > Open Slate Project > http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ > Honolulu > registered Linux user #273809 > To clone a HD to another, this is an example of a command for HD1 to HD2: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=8192 ...which is what I use for 40GB IDEs. In place of the ad0 and ad1, for SCSI, I believe it is "da0" for HD1... look at /etc/fstab and use the info for the device (exclude the slice #"s1a" etc...) there or from "dmesg" Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Cloning FreeBSD
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: > > 23 > >Jul 02 > > > >Dear Sir/Ma'am > > > > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very > >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard > >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning > >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy > >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. > > > >Regards > >Markus R Bertel > > > See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy > to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). What device name would I use? Let's say I have two SCSI drives. Would I use /dev/da0 and /dev/da1, or /dev/da0s1 and /dev/da1s1? -- Gary Dunn Open Slate Project http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ Honolulu registered Linux user #273809 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Cloning FreeBSD
Hi, > Dear Sir/Ma'am > > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very > satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard > drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning > software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy > from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. If you just want to have a backup kept on disk, use dump(8) (and restore(8) if needed). Just dump to a file on to the other disk using dump with the -f flag. Such as dump 0af /bakdisk/dump_of_root / and dump 0af /bakdisk/dump_of_home /home or whatever file systems you have and want to back up. The dump and restore utillities know how to keep file info like owners and links, etc properly and are easy to use and reliable. If what you are asking about is keeping an ongoing mirror of the disk then you need to check out either hardware or software raid support. jerry > > Regards > Markus R Bertel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Cloning FreeBSD
At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote: > 23 >Jul 02 > >Dear Sir/Ma'am > > We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very >satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard >drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning >software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy >from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. > >Regards >Markus R Bertel > See DD(1) to copy an exact image to another HD. Be aware that HD #2 (copy to) needs to be equal to or larger than HD #1 (copy from). Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Cloning FreeBSD
23 Jul 02 Dear Sir/Ma'am We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning software that would work and be compatable with FreeBSD where we could copy from one disk to another disk? Thank you for your input. Regards Markus R Bertel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
