Re: Installing NetBSD from FreeBSD

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Al Zick wrote:

> With FreeBSD, I did the same thing to create the image
> (dd if=/dev/wd1d | gzip -9 > storagebackup.img.gz).
> However, these servers already have the smaller SSDs
> in them, so I can't unzip the file first. I tried
> gunzip -c backup.img.gz | dd of=/dev/ada1
> It really looks like it runs out of drive before
> it runs out of image. 
> Does FreeBSD's dd work differently?

Hi,

On NetBSD /dev/rwd1d represents your whole disk,
not /dev/wd1d. On FreeBSD it should be the same.


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