Re: Cloning

Grant Peel wrote:
Just because it was brought up.....

Can Norton Ghost, run from a floppy be used to clone a FreeBSD disk?

(SCSI -> SCSI)

-Grant

----- Original Message ----- From: Brown, Steve To: Richard Rice ; freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:31 PM
Subject: RE: Cloning


I clone Thinkpads all the time with G4L. I haven't used G4U but from what I gather it's what G4L is based on (either the code or the concept - not sure).

You can clone everything including the recovery partition no problem.

The only snag I've run into doing this is with some of the older systems that shipped with a 15 head hard disk. You can clone them all you want but it has to be to another 15 head disk. Same limitation applies regardless of the cloning software.

I usually use an ftp server to store and retrieve the images but I've done it direct to the new drive via a USB enclosure also.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard Rice
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:09 AM
To: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Cloning


Any ideas on cloning an IBM T60 Thinkpad with G4U (Ghost for You)? The
T60 comes with a recovery partition. First I killdisk the drive,
re-install Windows XP. Then I want to capture an image with G4U so that
I can clone other T60 machines. Is this possible with G4U? My present
imaging software, Imagecaster, fails.

Richard

I don't see why not, as long as you choose the partition option, then very carefully install the FreeBSD MBR a little bit later.

Note the difference between DOS partitions (actually slices) and FreeBSD partitions.

-Garrett
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