Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:22:50 -0400
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To: jonathan@graehl.org ("Jonathan Graehl")
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to create a bootable FreeBSD hard drive for transfer to a new machine?
Message-ID: <9jmjntk612hjva6hos168qtnkbtl8035ha@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.997827632.101649875@news.sentex.net>
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On 14 Aug 2001 18:20:32 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: >Is it possible to use sysinstall on a live FreeBSD machine with an extra >disk as the destination? Yes. Pop in the new disk. /stand/sysinstall. fdisk it. Make it bootable. Exit out of sysinstall. Go back in and select the drive, go = into disklabel. (Not sure why you have to exit, but it sometimes does not work for me if you dont). Create your disk slices as needed. One trick I use = so that you can create ad1s1a is to say its mount point is for /. Then just toggle off the newfs flag. I am sure there is a way to do it script wise with fdisk and disklable as well. But this method will work as well until you find the nicer = solution. The man pages say dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/da0 bs=3D512 count=3D32 fdisk -BI da0 dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/da0s1 bs=3D512 count=3D32 disklabel -w -r -B da0s1 auto disklabel -e da0s1 will work as well, but I have run into trouble this way. YMMV of course. cd /;dump 0f - / | (cd /mnt-root; restore -rf - )=20 cd /;dump 0f - /usr | (cd /mnt-usr; restore -rf - )=20 cd /;dump 0f - /var | (cd /mnt-var; restore -rf - )=20 > > >Bonus points if someone can tell me how to build the new drive/system = using >the /usr/src build system. (Yes, I know how to install world to/from = NFS, >etc. - just need help with the boot-time stuff, and transferring over = stuff >that installworld nomrally skips ... e.g. /etc, /dev, although I could = just >copy from my existing trees) cd /dev;sh MAKEDEV all ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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