From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 21:59:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD7216A420 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:59:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rczero@mail.com) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C8343D49 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:59:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rczero@mail.com) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180]) by webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id A86DE18043E1 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:13:17 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.51) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 14 Mar 2006 20:13:15 -0000 Received: by ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E61ED84022; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:13:14 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Steve P." To: "Jerry McAllister" , freebsd@houston.rr.com Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:13:14 -0500 Received: from [66.139.242.2] by ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com with http for rczero@mail.com; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:13:14 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 66.139.242.2 X-Originating-Server: ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20060314201314.E61ED84022@ws1-5.us4.outblaze.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two slices, copy one slice to another? 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: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:59:51 -0000 ----- 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/