cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

[Dmitri Pisarev]

Nikolas Britton wrote:

>On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <dimaip at mail.ru> wrote:
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>>Nikolas Britton wrote:
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>>>On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev <dimaip at mail.ru> wrote:
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>>>>I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
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>>>>from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=2.5%203.5%20IDE%20Adapter
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>>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?
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>Will the BIOS let you do this?
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 >Do you mean the netcard BIOS or the motherboard BIOS? In system BIOS 
there's an option to boot from network. I have no idea what booting 
capabilities(PXE, netboot) my network card supports, 'll try to figure 
it out somehow.

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>>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...).
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>Any USB Floppy Drive should work.
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Ha! I wish! Portege's only recognise their own booting peripherals as 
boot devices((( As I was told at least...

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>>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?
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>How do you do it with Linux?... and re-explane how you tired to do it
>with FreeBSD.
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 >Tool called loading lets you do it. Somebody already has replied.

"and re-explane how you tired to do it
with FreeBSD."
1)downloaded tool dd for windows.
2)on desktop issued the following: dd.exe if=//?/mydrive_bsdparition(don't remember the syntaxis) of=g:\image.img
3)copy the image file over wi-fi to my laptop.
4)on laptop, use dd once again: dd.exe if=c:\image.img of=//?/mydrive_mydesiredbsdpartition.
5)tried to boot newly copied partition using Bootmagic and got "Boot error". Could Bootmagic be the problem??



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