From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 22:58:05 2004 Return-Path: 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 6C61116A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:58:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAF5B43D55 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 5027 invoked by uid 0); 11 Sep 2004 22:57:45 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO ?10.0.0.68?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 11 Sep 2004 22:57:45 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040911224514.J27192@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20040911224514.J27192@chylonia.3miasto.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <07C1579C-0446-11D9-9F9F-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:58:00 -0500 To: Wojciech Puchar X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving to larger drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:58:05 -0000 On Sep 11, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > could You help me in commands used to > > 1) create disklabel and mbr on blank disk > 2) install boot loader > > manually > ? There is nothing wrong with running sysinstall(8) on a live system. Can even be run remotely via ssh. Suggest you skip down to the (C)onfigure menu. Use (F)disk and (L)abel. Put your new partitions under /mnt/ or someplace separate from your running system filespace. Use (W)rite once you have things the way you desire. Then exit from sysinstall(8). Double check your /etc/fstab after, as sysinstall usually updates it when new filesystems are created, else you may be surprised at the next boot. Also appends stuff at the tail of /etc/rc.conf. The manpage says: NOTES The sysinstall utility is essentially nothing more than a monolithic C program with the ability to write MBRs and disk labels ... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Top-posters will not be shown the honor of a reply.