[buug] disklabel

[Nick Jennings]

I know this is a bit late to respond, but it seems if the disk drives are the
same size, you can just do a simple: dd if=<old_drive_device> of=<new_drive_device>

You will need to boot onto a floppy though. Check out tomsrtbt or picobsd.

- Nick Jennings

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:12:33PM -0800, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm still trying to get this drive cloned (I'm practicing on a test machine)
> and I have the machine recognizing the new second drive, but apparently it needs a
> label first?
> 
> This second drive is fresh out of the box. I tried running disklabel on it
> with no luck. From the man pages I tried:
> 
> disklabel -w -r ad2 auto
> 
> and got back
> 
> /kernal: ad2: cannot find label (no disk label)
> disklabel: No space left on device
> 
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
> 
> 
> Skip Evans
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