Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:13:14 -0500 From: "Steve P." <rczero@mail.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd@houston.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two slices, copy one slice to another? Message-ID: <20060314201314.E61ED84022@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry McAllister"=20 To: freebsd@houston.rr.com=20 Subject: Re: two slices, copy one slice to another? Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:34:38 -0500 (EST) > > Is there a trick to copying one working system from a slice to another sl= ice? > > What I envision is two slices: > /dev/ad0s1 - one complete install > /dev/ad0s2 - copy of first install, via dump restore. (Is=20 > this where I screwed up?) Jerry--No, dump/restore is the thing to use. Jerry--Was the second slice /dev/ad0s2 made bootable - when you laid down Jerry--the partitions? I used sysinstall to lay down the partitions, then did a minimal install, s= o it was bootable I would assume. > I tried this, but upon reboot, I could see both installs. I was given a > choice of the two, but F2 only booted the first install. > What is the trick? Jerry--The problem is probably that you copied it directly including /etc/f= stab. Jerry--So, /etc/fstab still points to /dev/ad0s1a at the root (/) partition Jerry--and /dev/ad0s1b as swap, etc, etc Those need to be manually edited Jerry--after the dump/restore to be /dev/ad0s2a, /dev/ad0s2b, etc respectiv= ely. Now that I think about it, yeah. fstab still points to the former slice. Fu= nny how the obvious eludes you ad 2am.=20 I will try that, and Thanks Very Much. Steve.=20 ////jerry > Thanks. > Steve. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/
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