From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 9 9:42:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aaz.links.ru (aaz.links.ru [193.125.152.37]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F5340CD for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:42:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from babolo@localhost) by aaz.links.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00869; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:42:46 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <200002091742.UAA00869@aaz.links.ru> Subject: Re: Creating Dedicated disk. In-Reply-To: from "Corey Leopold" at "Feb 9, 0 10:45:15 am" To: leopold@mailcenter.csap.af.mil (Corey Leopold) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:42:46 +0300 (MSK) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Corey Leopold writes: > I have a situation where I have a Tar file of a complete 3.4 FreeBSD system > from the / directory on down. > > I'm trying to get this file onto a new system using a "dangerously dedicated" > scsi disk, but am having problems getting the boot sector right using, > disklabel, fdisk, and boot0cfg on a picobsd boot floppy. The tar file > resides on another hard disk. > > If anyone could give any hints on how to do this, or some documentation, it > would be appreciated. The easyest way is install FreeBSD on this disk and then untar over. Disable all servises before untar - cron, nfs so on. More powerfull is fdisk, disklabel and newfs disk booting FreeBSD on another disk then mount a slise in some dir (/mnt as example) and mkdir /mnt/usr /mnt/var so on and mount slises on this dirs. then untar, then edit /mnt/etc/fstab and /mnt/boot/... But count, dump/restore is better in regard of precision of fs details copied. > If any more info is needed please let me know. -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message