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Copy one disk to another using Linux and DD

The following will copy two disks, partition table and all, with forensic quality, and pad the destination disk with zeroes if any data is unreadable on the source disk. Be sure you’ve identified which disk is which using combinations of dmesg and ‘fdisk -l’. The destination disk must also be equal or greater in size. […]

Remotely installing PFSense to hard drive with VGA and without CD-ROM

FreeBSD is great for certain tasks (such as firewalls and other embedded devices), but has some real shortcomings when it comes to booting from attached or remote storage. This severely complicates the installation process in some cases. In my case, I have a remote server in a rack with no CD-ROM. Pulling the server from […]