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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
or
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
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?
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 disklabel
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
