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To: stan <stanb@awod.com>
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Subject: Re: Help PLEASE! Frustration == MAX, geting my machine back working
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From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 29 Mar 2002 14:22:32 -0800
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stan <stanb@awod.com> writes:

> 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:

The simplest method is to boot up the "fixit" and do "cat /dev/ad0
>/dev/ad1", or (faster?) figure the cylinder size and use 
"dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=<cylinder size or track size or...>.
Either should do the deed, given your identical disk drives.

I'm not sure why sysinstall won't do it.  Maybe you need to have it
put boot blocks on the second disk as you did to the first disk.

I'd probably do a fresh install on the second disk (putting new FreeBSD
boot blocks on both disks so you can boot to the second disk via "F5")
and then use it to restore backups to the disk from which they came.

P.S. Please don't post such questions to -stable.

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