Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:04:35 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <20110106230435.000023ad@unknown> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=1Zk2-Us=z9vyR6RcoodaPOxj=4BtXvCtYosKh@mail.gmail.com> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <AANLkTinCZuupW%2BGFMeL70nPO90tZAAJNj8g0SaOztsR3@mail.gmail.com> <20101231105353.S36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinSbE8d=iYES78GJmYO2PyOAGHMjwQ%2B2HT45yxc@mail.gmail.com> <20110102102255.00004f57@unknown> <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110103022619.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTimkCdtULT9jfNtwKcfxF8R-TQ_j=qZgS-Y-YGfu@mail.gmail.com> <20110104143245.P49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTi=Aqh4cpmdkHx1QsTyoYh7nhinEfDUuPO3fUAh5@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101041840310.14633@wonkity.com> <20110105152725.U49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinfVLGomOj-Nanvr4sgei-p=HQ9-Mh0rXQQ7E%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> <20110106160720.B49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTimXQXmk2t8xBN1H7fWkyNo%2BFyasU8KaSeakpnUJ@mail.gmail.com> <20110106230849.H49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101061423570.23404@wonkity.com> <AANLkTi=1Zk2-Us=z9vyR6RcoodaPOxj=4BtXvCtYosKh@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:54:32 -0500 Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote: > Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a > manual install of just base? if I can get the system installed at > this point then all should be good when I reboot. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs commands if you want). I found I had to copy the base and kernel directories from the install ISO to a UFS-formatted USB stick first though since the LiveFS CD doesn't have the distributions. -- Bruce Cran
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