Nikolas Britton wrote:

On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD).
I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer.
The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition to the
laptop computer somehow, so it would remain bootable? I tried to copy my
ad0s2(my BSD partition) to ad0s3 on laptop, using dd.exe for windows,
and all i get is "Boot error". I'm using freebsd bootloader on desktop,
and BootMagic on laptop, could that be a problem?
any help or suggestions are appreciated.

The simple way would be to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adaptor. Pull the
drive out of the laptop and put it in your desktop to Install FreeBSD.

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=2.5%203.5%20IDE%20Adapter


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Thank you for the reply!
I have already been replacing my HDD once, and it's a real problem for me to disassemble it, takes hell of a lot of time, so I would like to avoid it. So, is there a way to clone partition from one system to another and make it work? Also, does anyone know, will my laptop netboot(PXE or smth?) from Xircom 100/10 PCMCIA adapter? Here's a list of posible ways I'm considering to installing freebsd on to my laptop:
1)Buy the toshiba floppy drive(difficult to find in russia...).
2)Boot over the network.
3)Pull the drive out and install BSD on the desktop.
4)Clone partition somehow??
5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the same posible with FreeBSD?
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