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.
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]
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.
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.
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]
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: 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.
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, 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 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]
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
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?
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]
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]
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 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
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
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
