Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:42:59 -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: <jltlntgdlclsqj1e1h2am1oul76nvimgd7@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.997827632.101649875@news.sentex.net>
References: <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? > >I want to jumpstart a new FreeBSD machine, without having the option of >bootable cdrom (old BIOS), floppy (broken controller), or network card >(don't have one with that capability). I used to build a DOS boot with >Linux install files, and run a DOS loader (loadlin or something like = that) OK, here is a little script I used. This assumes that ad0 is your boot = hard drive that you want to clone and that ad1 is the destination drive you = want to copy to. Note, this does _not_ check for any errors #!/bin/sh #blow away all data one ad1 /bin/dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad1 bs=3D512 count=3D32 # do the fdisk /sbin/fdisk -BI ad1 #create a bootable drive with disk label /sbin/disklabel -w -r -B ad1s1 auto #read in 10g disklable /sbin/disklabel -R ad1s1 /root/10g-disk #load in editor to make sure it looks reasonable and give pause /sbin/disklabel -e ad1s1 #newfs the slices /sbin/newfs /dev/rad1s1a /sbin/newfs /dev/rad1s1e /sbin/newfs /dev/rad1s1f #enable soft updates /sbin/tunefs -n enable ad1s1e /sbin/tunefs -n enable ad1s1f #mount them up=20 /sbin/mount -o async /dev/ad1s1a /mnt-root /sbin/mount /dev/ad1s1e /mnt-var /sbin/mount /dev/ad1s1f /mnt-usr #dump / restore them cd / ; dump -0 -b 600 -f - / | ( cd /mnt-root ; restore -rf - ) cd /usr ; dump -0 -b 600 -f - /usr | ( cd /mnt-usr ; restore -rf - ) cd /var ; dump -0 -b 600 -f - /var | ( cd /mnt-var ; restore -rf - ) The file 10g-disk looks like # /dev/ad1s1: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label:=20 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 19856 sectors/unit: 20015793 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0=20 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 819200 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 2097152 819200 swap # (Cyl. 812*- 2893*) c: 20015793 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 19856*) e: 4194304 2916352 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 2893*- 7054*) f: 12582912 7110656 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 7054*- 19537*) ---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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