Bd_net wrote:
> Hello,
> I have BSD unix which is configured as a firewall.
> I want to make a exact replica of this hard disk.
>
>
> I am comfertable in Red Hat Linux.
> I think I can use dd utility for the copy of the old hard disk to new
> hard disk. But the limitation with dd utility is we need new hard disk
> with exact same architecture as of old hard disk.
Not true.
dd if=/dev/hda if=/dev/hdb bs=10240k
will copy until it runs off the disk, after it which it give error
message - but thats not a problem. It just means that it
can't copy any more.
You could boot off a liveCD like knoppix or Mepis
and do the whole operation outside
of any files that may be in use.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
And I dont have that!
> I did it with Linux machine --- 2nd solution which i used for making a
> replica of disk having Linux is by installing the linux system on the
> new hard disk with same partition size and then copied the data from
> old hard disk to new (either by tar files or just by using the cp
> command)and then wrote/installed the grub loader (boot loader) in the
> MBR. every thing is working fine. But the problem is I dont know/want
> BSD installation. And I dont know how the boot loader is
> managed/installed in BSD.
>
>
> How should I make a replica for the old disk??
> Please help, thanks in advance
>
>
> Bhagwan Dass
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