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Date:      Sat, 26 Dec 1998 16:36:59 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        farzad@novanetworks.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions FreeBSD)
Subject:   Re: How can I mirror a FreeBSD hard drive?
Message-ID:  <199812262236.QAA19129@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812241841.SAA20955@tssa.novanetworks.com> from Farzad Diba at "Dec 24, 98 04:09:27 pm"

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In a previous message, Farzad Diba said:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I read your post about using dump/restore to create new freebsd-
> bootable drives. I'm wondering how you prep the disk before you 
> mount it as a secondary drive and perform the dump/restore of the 
> filesystems. To be specific -
> 
> when i mount the drive initially to /mnt and create the initial slice, it 
> is an 'e' slice.
> 
> when i remove the primary and boot off the secondary the 'system' 
> is looking for an 'a' slice.
> 
> how do i change the initial boot up process to look for the kernel at
> 
> 0:wd(0,e)kernel rather than 0:wd(0,a)kernel?
> 
> farzad diba

I used the non-interactive features of disklabel and fdisk to 
create the partitions as I needed. 

You could also trick disklabel by having it do an automatic layout
then change the partitions as needed.      


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