cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

[Dmitri Pisarev]

illoai at gmail.com wrote:

>On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>snips
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huh? what's snips?(I'm a novice:-))

>>>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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>Loadlin will boot linux from any dos partition, probably ntfs (I haven't
>tried that) and you can then fdisk the old windows partition, etc etc.
>Might be very tricky, but with a little ingenuity one should be able
>to boot linux, dump some freebsd stuff into the former winders partition
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>Hey! I still want to keep my windows partition!

>(I'd bet you'd want to use grub for booting, call me old-fashioned) (I just
>realised I have no idea how to newfs for ufs in linux, maybe here dd
>or dump might work).
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>Stream of consciousness:  loadlin to linux, qemu to freebsd,
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is that really neccesary? isn't there a version of qemu for windows?

> mounting
>the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd and proceed from there?
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Didn't grasp this step completly, sorry. what do you mean by

"mounting
the raw /dev/hda1 on freebsd"

? isn't it the same operation as I have been trying to do already with
dd? Re-explain please, if you can.

>  If it works,
>you're the bee's knees.  If you fail, though, you may never boot again,
>which is why I would suggest keeping a linux partition (slice) and grub
>working until you know it works.
>In any case it sounds quite dangerous.  Proceed with caution.
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>Could loadlin be rewritten to work with any kernel?  has it been?
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