Re: moving FBSD to other factory-new harddrives

From: Michel Talon (talon_at_lpthe.jussieu.fr)
Date: 03/01/04


Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:45:51 +0000 (UTC)

Peter Pippinger <peter.pippinger@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello NG,
>
> i have installed a good system (for my opinion of course ;-) . Now i
> want to have exactly the same system on more computers. How do i make
> these copies to factory-new harddisks?
>
> The goal is to put in the new harddisk in my existing system.
> Do something (???).
> Put the new (ready with all partitions) harddisk into the othe computer.

If the disks are absolutely indentical, plug in the other disk in your
computer, reboot, you will see ad0 (working) and ad1 (virgin), then do
dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=16k
this should reproduce the first on the second including partition table
etc.

-- 
Michel TALON


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