From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 23:14:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354E21065670 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:14:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2728FC12 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:14:46 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KRK00GI4WKLS6M0@VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4AD7ACE7.6030201@videotron.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:14:47 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) To: Polytropon , PJ , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca> <20091015203922.d98bc249.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AD77127.1060805@videotron.ca> <20091015211743.e910374e.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091015193120.GA74733@sushi.pseudo.local> In-reply-to: <20091015193120.GA74733@sushi.pseudo.local> Cc: Subject: Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:14:46 -0000 Tobias Rehbein wrote: > Am Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:17:43PM +0200 schrieb Polytropon: > >> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ wrote: >> >> You can use sysinstall from the Fixit CD, too. That's the way >> I'm mostly doing this kind of thing: Preparing the disk with >> the sysinstall tool, then dropping to CLI for the restoring >> process. >> > > If all you want to do is to prepare the disks you can leave sysinstall alone and > use sade(8). > > Hmmm, very, very interesting... Will check it out. 8-)