Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Kukulies
cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-31 Thread Christoph Kukulies
AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB

dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to make my notebook a bit faster. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, 7400 CPU.

RE: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Steele
:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd cloning slightly different disks Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive, 512GB, with the intention to

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 30 March 2010 12:11, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD 5000BEVT, (500GB). Today I bought a Kingston SDnowV+ Solid State drive,

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Though not 100% FreeBSD centric, my question, I know that disk partitioning experts are around here. My noteook HD is a WD

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. I'm hoping to be able to use my FreeBSD and Windows partitions afterwards somehow, possibly with some geometry tweaking or

Re: dd cloning slightly different disks

2010-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: At the moment I'm copying (dd) from the WD internal disk to the SSD which I had put into an external SATA Icybox. ... You should be able to copy your Windows partition with DriveImage XML, free for

Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks. Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being that they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces (i.e.

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. bsdlabel -B disk (or disks1 and fdisk -B disk if you use MBR partitions at all). Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. this is no difference Can I assume the the da

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Grant Peel wrote: Thanks Sir! What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. Can I assume the the da driver will handle all these OK...ie. should not see any fstab problems?

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread james
Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being that they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces