From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 16:42:10 2002 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 B7D2137B401 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DC243E3B for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8DNfrS50436; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:41:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020913184152.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:41:52 -0500 To: Gerard Samuel From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Moving boot drives Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <3D827117.4090203@trini0.org> References: <3.0.5.32.20020913143937.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:13 PM 9.13.2002 -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: >I didn't think your answer had anything to do with what Im experiencing. >But just to make sure, I did use dump/restore and got the same results. >Ive tried different target disks, and different methods of moving data. >So Im guessing that while Im in sysinstall, Im not doing something right >to make the disk bootable. >So, Im going to try to use fdisk/disklabel via the commandline and see >if I can get it done that way instead of /stand/sysinstall, >after a trip to the man pages. >But if anyone has spotted where Im going wrong, please feel free to let >me know. >Thanks. > Before replying, I had read your link and found it not to be very clear, nor did your question/comments indicate which of the several methods described there you followed. Certainly didn't see much that referred to dump/restore. Good luck if you haven't done FDISK/Label from the command line before.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message