On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Stephen Hoover wrote: > I know the topic of "ghosting" a FreeBSD box is discussed on here from time > to time. > > I just wanted to let everyone know I had a success using Ghost 7 on my > current setup. I cloned it from a Dell PowerEdge 2450 to a generic desktop > with same drive configuration (2 SCSI drives in each). I used Ghost to do a > sector copy on each individual harddrive. > > All I had to do to get it rolling was boot to the GENERIC kernel, as the one > I configured for the Dell server was SMP. Everything seemed to come up and > work fine. It even saw additional drive space on the new machine, as the > harddrives were slightly bigger. > > Just thought this was some good information for the list. > > Stephen Hoover > Dallas, Texas In case you have time to work it out and you can live with some small bugs, there is a very promising OpenSource project on http://www.sysresccd.org SystemRescueCD is a bootable CD based on Gentoo-Linux. It can - manage partitions - mirror partitions - set up connections to nfs and samba servers via network - ntfs and ufs support is declared as experimental by the authors but seems to work on my home-network
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