Cloning

[Garrett Cooper]

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 at freebsd.org 
>   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 at freebsd.org
>   [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Richard Rice
>   Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:09 AM
>   To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>   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