On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: > > > > If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely > > operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, > > or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd' and appropriate tool to > > completely clone the Good disk to the not so good disk....therefor making the > > second disk identical to the first? Bootable and all? > > yes > > dd if=/dev/firstdisk of=/dev/seconddisk bs=64k > > and yes it is bootable, but if you boot from second disk, FreeBSD kernel > will mount root from first disk anyway, unless you will reconfigure it. >
Would this also work to copy CDs? If so, does it matter what os and/or format they would have? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
