From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 02:41:34 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 48F7C1065696 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 02:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4B58FC0A for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 02:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so7962136ewy.13 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:41:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.36.2 with SMTP id r2mr10847055ebd.51.1294368091867; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:41:31 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.8.142 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:41:11 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brennan Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:41:11 -0500 Message-ID: To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Adam Vande More , Ian Smith , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved] 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: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:41:34 -0000 On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > 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 > Bruce, your a lifesaver! +1 for you and your wiki page. +1 for Warren's page ( http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_way_tt_fdisk_8_tt_and_tt_bsdlabel_8_tt) and +5 for Ian and his incredible patience. Hodgepodging Warren's and Bruce's pages together got me a working base. Laptop is now installed w/o the assistance of a boot cd or the usb hard-drive I was using. I did have to grab a DVD of 8.1 and burn it to a DVDRW, just so I could get access to /dist/8.1-*. That being said, I think I am going to look at setting up that same external hd w/ a full 8.2-R root when it's ready, so I have a full, local tree to utilize for weird installs like this (I don't know why I never did that before)