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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: add new hard disk
Date: 28 Sep 1996 18:59:07 GMT
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sanh@bluep.com wrote:

> I am trying to add a new hard-disk (for back-up)  but I do not succeed. 
> New Disk is same like first one .

In this case, you can simply duplicate both disks by

	dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/rwd1 bs=64k

This will give you an exact 1 : 1 image.

> I tried  /stand/sysinstall  and doesnt work .

Which version of FreeBSD?

> Sam Hadzajlic (BOSNIA)   samh@bluep.com       

Btw., for Bosnia, your timezone offset of -0700 looks a little weird
(-0700 is Pacific Daylight savings Time).  +0200 is certainly correct.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)