From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 23:05:02 2011 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 65EFE106566C for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:05:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA948FC18 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601FBE8B45; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:05:00 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=QAry5a3NGKDO PE63GUfvFzzn/R8=; b=BOCuhw2djo3k58oMSszwo+sJ7QVjeZda6IelfWygy4z1 8S1QcLpwi5q4hj7+3TBSK4pu9Kq1n2vlbrsNdCvua1cXBcUcUWO9yOVxE+TvO7EH ZMcqqUpQTKEr2HlYSXItLGiG17QyqKmWUzzaHbHYD3cWylA39DLlXpSEAH2N1wg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from:to :cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=lJSzBg dAe3abcpHeWUAa6usSZ09ANFWOGPxZmprNV/kAcGerENCFDrr4ID81Gj/LHOP4Sw jbTLlr6A+mX/XsmNjSRnSdF6GTMqAwN/9peIBsWt5fBqohRFSY0WPyk1wprz9uee h5IfBxGY5KJw6I+CvGyU4RoNU0U/JAvpeV3vY= Received: from unknown (client-86-27-23-77.glfd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.27.23.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4C7D0E61EE; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:04:56 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:04:35 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Chris Brennan Message-ID: <20110106230435.000023ad@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <20101231105353.S36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110102102255.00004f57@unknown> <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110103022619.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110104143245.P49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110105152725.U49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110106160720.B49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110106230849.H49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adam Vande More , Ian Smith , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop 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, 06 Jan 2011 23:05:02 -0000 On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:54:32 -0500 Chris Brennan 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