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From: Phill Glasson <pglasson@albury.net.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Cloning A FreeBSD System Disk
Date: 23 Mar 1996 23:51:35 GMT
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Thank you for any help you may be able to give.


I have a 2.0.5 installation on a 991Mb Maxtor.  I want to clone my 
machine onto a 2.1Gb Conner pft2105s.  I have been looking through the 
man page for disklabel and have not been able to succesfully lable the 
disk.

The Conner scsi drive has a variable number of sectors per track (67-139) 
which seems to be causing all kinds of wierd problems.  I may even be on 
the wrong track with regard to cloning the disk to create a new machine.

No, I don't have the original distribution.  I sent my disk away, and it 
came back with bsd on it.

As background, I manage two Ultrix and six AIX machines in the Asia-Pac 
region, but still feel "a babe in arms" with regard bsd.