Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-10 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:03:58AM -0600, John wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:17:56PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: John wrote: OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including

Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :( I have used dump(8) to dump out my filesystems. I am wondering if I can just use dd to

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
John wrote: OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :( I have used dump(8) to dump out my filesystems. I am wondering if I can just

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:17:56PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: John wrote: OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :( I

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :( I have used dump(8) to dump out my filesystems. I am wondering if I can just

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread Robin Becker
John wrote: I have used dump(8) to dump out my filesystems. I am wondering if I can just use dd to dump out all of /dev/ad0s1 also, and then use dd to put it back again when I'm done. Then I'd boot the installation CD into fixit mode, build a new MBR, make sure that the new s1 was the same or

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:51 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :( I have used

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:51:20AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :( I have

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dump cannot work on anthing other than UFS filesystems. Dump actually separately interprets the filesystem structure. Consider, for example, that dump works perfectly well on unmounted filesystems. Dump is DRAMATICALLY different in its operation than tar,

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:51:20AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP and FreeBSD on my laptop. :(

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:23:12AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dump cannot work on anthing other than UFS filesystems. Dump actually separately interprets the filesystem structure. Consider, for example, that dump works perfectly well on unmounted