From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 27 10:54:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CEE7150CB for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpr@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 63245 invoked from network); 27 Dec 1999 18:53:29 -0000 Received: from joff.vc.net (HELO ?209.239.239.22?) (209.239.239.22) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 27 Dec 1999 18:53:29 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <03e801bf4d74$5728cce0$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <8091C29FE7ABD31180AA0090275CD29729512E@ksugzx02.eskan.af.mil> <03e801bf4d74$5728cce0$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:53:28 -0800 To: "Alejandro Ramirez" , "Cole Mark A SSgt JTF-SWA/J6" , "'bsd'" From: Jon Rust Subject: RE: backup restore dilemma Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I went through this recently. The fixit floppy wouldn't let me label the new drive. Of course, I'm not super proficient with disklabel, fdisk and friends, so I'm sure it was a PEBKAC issue. :-) I tried running sysinstall from within the fixit flop. Bad idea. It panicked when I tried to commit the fdisk and label commands. In the end, I did an "Express" minimal install from the install disks, booted into single user and did the restore at that point. I'd love to see some step-by-steps for doing this with the fixit floppy. Thanks, jon At 12:34 PM -0600 12/23/99, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: >Hi, > > You can boot with the install floppies, and use the fixit.flp floppy to >have a shell and restore your system. > >Merry Xmas >Ales To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message