recreate FreeBSD 12 ARM image

[Jamie Landeg-Jones]

Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie at catflap.org> wrote:

> I.E. Stick the card into another system, don't mount it, but do:
>
> dd if=/dev/DEVICE-NAME bs=1m | gzip -c > img.gz
>
> This will copy the disk image, and compress it with gzip before saving it
> to the file.

P.S. Before you unmount the "live" system you want to copy, do:

rm /etc/hostid

or else all your installs will have the same id!