Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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?
Will the BIOS let you do this?
>Do you mean the netcard BIOS or the motherboard BIOS? In system BIOS
there's an option to boot from network. I have no idea what booting
capabilities(PXE, netboot) my network card supports, 'll try to figure
it out somehow.
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...).
Any USB Floppy Drive should work.
Ha! I wish! Portege's only recognise their own booting peripherals as
boot devices((( As I was told at least...
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?
How do you do it with Linux?... and re-explane how you tired to do it
with FreeBSD.
>Tool called loading lets you do it. Somebody already has replied.
"and re-explane how you tired to do it
with FreeBSD."
1)downloaded tool dd for windows.
2)on desktop issued the following: dd.exe if=//?/mydrive_bsdparition(don't
remember the syntaxis) of=g:\image.img
3)copy the image file over wi-fi to my laptop.
4)on laptop, use dd once again: dd.exe if=c:\image.img
of=//?/mydrive_mydesiredbsdpartition.
5)tried to boot newly copied partition using Bootmagic and got "Boot error".
Could Bootmagic be the problem??
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