From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 4 10:31:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nw178.netaddress.usa.net (nw178.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC68937B4C5 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:31:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14045 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Nov 2000 18:31:38 -0000 Message-ID: <20001104183138.14044.qmail@nw178.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.78 by nw178 for [195.58.102.60] via web-mailer(34FM.0700.4.03) on Sat Nov 4 18:31:37 GMT 2000 Date: 4 Nov 00 19:31:37 MET From: Johan Petersson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bootable CD and tape drive X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.4.03) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, Here is my setup; a small network of three computers, two of which are running FreeBSD (4.1) and one is running Windows 2000. I have one SCSI DAT tape backup connected to the computer running Win2k. Preparing the HD for dual boot is not an option so I was planning on creating a bootable CD to boot FreeBSD on the third computer, so I can access the tape from the other two using dump/tar/rmt. The CD burner (SCSI) is on one of the FreeBSD computers. I've been scratching my head a while about how to do this, specifically about how to prepare a file system for the boot CD. I would need to be able to enter multi-user mode, right? And what would the fstab look like, only one file system (root)? Secondly, will I be able to restore to the FreeBSD computers after a crash? I would have to use fixit floppies on one of them since = it doesn't have a CD, and I would need to be able to configure the network card (3com 10Mbit and NE2000 respectivly). Any other thoughts you might have are very welcome! Regards Johan Petersson ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message