[buug] disklabel
Nick Jennings
nkj at namodn.com
Mon Dec 9 22:06:18 PST 2002
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?
>
>
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