Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:59:05 -0500 From: stan <stanb@awod.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Help PLEASE! Frustration == MAX, geting my machine back working Message-ID: <20020329175905.GA17886@teddy.fas.com>
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I had, untill last weekend a very sweet FreeBSD 4 STABLE machine. I tried last weekend to upgared to the latest via CVSUP'ing, and portupgrade. To make a long and miserable story short, I woulnd up with so many things broken that I couldn't get them going till I had more time to work on them. So I set aside this weekend for geting thigs back working. After working on it all last night, and really making no progeress I decided I just wanted my machien back to where it was last Friday, and then I could try upgrading in smaller more managable chunks. I have a good set of Amanda backups, and the machine has several 40G disks in ti, only one of which I am presently using. So I decided the best way to aproach this was to partition one of the other disks to look just like the one I was using, and restore from the Amanda backups. Well I can't seem to get the disk partioned corectly. I am using susinstall and seting up the paritions to be just like the first disk: ad1s1a 500M / ad1s1b 1500M swap ad1s1e 200M /var ad1s1f remainder /usr Obvoiusly I had to tell sysinstall to prepend /mnt1 to all of these names to avouid conflicting with the existing mount points. Once I get all of this set up in the disk slice editor I press W and newfs et all is run. However, when I reboot the machine it complains that I must run fsck manually and can't read block 16 on /dev/ad1s1a every time. Thinking I mught have a bad disk (less than 3 months old, but possible0, I tried the same thing with /dev/ad2so, sam problem. I simply want to be able to get back to where I was last Friday! Can anyone provide some help here? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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