cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

[Nikolas Britton]

On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <dimaip at mail.ru> wrote:
> Nikolas Britton wrote:
>
> >On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <dimaip at mail.ru> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
> >>from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
> >>FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD).
> >>I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer.
> >>The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition to the
> >>laptop computer somehow, so it would remain bootable? I tried to copy my
> >>ad0s2(my BSD partition) to ad0s3 on laptop, using dd.exe for windows,
> >>and all i get is "Boot error". I'm using freebsd bootloader on desktop,
> >>and BootMagic on laptop, could that be a problem?
> >>any help or suggestions are appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The simple way would be to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adaptor. Pull the
> >drive out of the laptop and put it in your desktop to Install FreeBSD.
> >
> >http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=2.5%203.5%20IDE%20Adapter
> >
> >
> Thank you for the reply!
> I have already been replacing my HDD once, and it's a real problem for
> me to disassemble it, takes hell of a lot of time, so I would like to
> avoid it.
> So, is there a way to clone partition from one system to another and
> make it work?
> Also, does anyone know, will my laptop netboot(PXE or smth?) from Xircom
> 100/10 PCMCIA adapter?

Will the BIOS let you do this?

> Here's a list of posible ways I'm considering to installing freebsd on
> to my laptop:
> 1)Buy the toshiba floppy drive(difficult to find in russia...).

Any USB Floppy Drive should work.

> 2)Boot over the network.
> 3)Pull the drive out and install BSD on the desktop.
> 4)Clone partition somehow??
> 5)Any other way? I know how to install Linux without booting up, is the
> same posible with FreeBSD?

How do you do it with Linux?... and re-explane how you tired to do it
with FreeBSD.




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