Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> with identical drive make copy with dd
>
> dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=64k
Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> You should fdisk the second drive and make is bootable and create
> the identical partitions with disklabel ( you can use /stand/sysinstall
> to run fdisk and diskla
>
> Soon I will have two identical 120GB IDE HDs in my FBSD 4.10
> system. One is to be basically a backup drive. Can I write a
> MBR to the second HD and then swap cables when I want to
> boot/run the system from the backup HD, assuming I've used pax
> or dump to make the file systems identic
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We've been buying Compaqs (DL-380s and 580s) for four years now and are
happy. Also, IBM's boxes are good. We have a customer who bought Dell
and IBM and found that Dell performed about 25% less than the IBM's for
the same config.
HTH,
Siddhartha
Robert
Speaking of "swappable": I considering building a machine with
one or more hot-swappable SCSI drives. Can I do this under FreeBSD
(5.x)?
If so, what manufacturers and vendors do people recommend?
Robert Huff
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> Soon I will have two identical 120GB IDE HDs in my FBSD 4.10
> system. One is to be basically a backup drive. Can I write a
> MBR to the second HD and then swap cables when I want to
> boot/run the system from the backup HD, assuming I've used pax
>
Soon I will have two identical 120GB IDE HDs in my FBSD 4.10
system. One is to be basically a backup drive. Can I write a
MBR to the second HD and then swap cables when I want to
boot/run the system from the backup HD, assuming I've used pax
or dump to make the file systems identical? The "norm
