krad writes:
On a side note. Anyone building new systems manually from the shell I would
recommend using GPT labels if you can. Apart from not having the 8 fs limit
(128 iirc) gpart is a dam sight nicer to use than bsdlabel, and scripting it
Any links on GPT on 8?
Found this tutorial for 7
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:32:33 +0100, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
with bs=512 and count=1 from
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:00 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
For me, it would be because dealing with an individual 512-byte
partition table file is easier than decompressing a multi-gigabyte image
file to get at the first 512 bytes.
There is a point where a dd copy of
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Chris wrote:
Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.
Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and
restore. Of course, the key is fast.
Clonezilla uses ntfsclone or partimage, both programs that have built-in
knowledge of specific
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote:
Greetings,
Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.
Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and
restore. Of course, the key is fast.
Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than
On 28 Sep 2009 15:02, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote:
Greetings,
Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.
Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote:
Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.
For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's
their main purpose.
Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc))
and that
2009/9/28 Polytropon free...@edvax.de
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote:
Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla.
For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's
their main purpose.
Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:31 +0100, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote:
If your going to do all the partitoning manually its not to much more work
to newfs them as well.
Partitioning can be automated, as well as newfs, which does
take only seconds on a TB-sized disk. If you want to avoid
this,
2009/9/29 Polytropon free...@edvax.de
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:31 +0100, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote:
If your going to do all the partitoning manually its not to much more
work
to newfs them as well.
Partitioning can be automated, as well as newfs, which does
take only seconds on a
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device.
Why?
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will
keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately
with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device.
Why?
Because it
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