From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 9: 7:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.class.de (proxy.class.de [62.180.31.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31BD14ECD for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderl@class.de) Received: from viruswall.class.de (viruswall.class.de [192.168.14.2]) by proxy.class.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA24610 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:03:48 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 18533 invoked by uid 0); 31 Jan 2000 17:05:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO rauch.class.de) (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Jan 2000 17:05:54 -0000 Received: from kirk.class.de (kirk [204.231.63.20]) by rauch.class.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA18798 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:07:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (anderl@localhost) by kirk.class.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA19780 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:04:37 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.class.de: anderl owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:04:37 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Gaertner X-Sender: anderl@kirk To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installboot/disklabel Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, currently i am asking myself whether my backup strategy is ok or not. i use to dump my filesystems (/, /usr, /var, /tmp) onto another disk of which i build an image to record a cd. in case of a diskfailure i replace the system disk, partition and label it, restore the filesystems onto it and everything is going to be fine. however, of course, there are no bootblocks on the new disk. how can i make my disk bootable? is it enough to simply 'disklabel -B' da0 for example? or is there a similar program to installboot (i use to use under solaris). i am using freebsd 3.1 and 3.2 any hints are welcome, regards, anderl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message