From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 14:22:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C92D16A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post4.inre.asu.edu (post4.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3023444001 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:22:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony.pagliocco@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post4.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.2 #30756) id <0HKN00G01PYYWC@asu.edu> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:20:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from mainexzz.asu.edu (mainexzz.asu.edu [129.219.10.209]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.2 #30756) with ESMTP id <0HKN00DBSPYY4I@asu.edu> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:20:58 -0700 (MST) Received: by mainexzz.asu.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:20:59 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:20:51 -0700 From: Tony Pagliocco To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Newbie - CD Burning Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:22:29 -0000 I have a cd writer on my FreeBSD 4.4 Machine. I'm new to FreeBSD and have tried using the burncd command that is in the documentation. However, I do not think the CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or directory is located. The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate What I want to do is copy a whole directory and burn it to my cd-rom Can someone just give me a nudge to show me what I may be doing wrong, command or location wise. Thanks in advance -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Poy [mailto:vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:10 PM To: Mark Cc: questions@freebsd.org; Joshua Oreman Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joshua Oreman" > To: "Mark" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD > > > > > > cd /mnt/root > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf- > > > > cd /mnt/var > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf- > > > > cd /mnt/usr > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf- > > > > > > I have heard this before, but I never understand this part. :) How > > > does creating a /mnt/root directory, and restoring in that directory > > > get my / slice back? Then the restored data will just sit > > > in /mnt/root! What good does it there? > > > > > > Or should I create /mnt/root as partition, about equal in size to the > root > > > To mirror the root partition to another: > > # mkdir /mnt/root > > # mount /dev/ /mnt/root > > # cd /mnt/root > > # /sbin/dump -f- / | restore -rf- > > > > You will not *need* to umount the root partition. > > Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But > how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that "restored" partition as /? Edit > /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging > suspicion it will then still boot off the old / slice. > > - Mark Editing /mnt/root/etc/fstab and updating it with the new entries. Perhaps you can make a script so that after the dump/restore.. it'll copy /etc/fstab.new to /mnt/root/etc/fstab - the fstab.new file is basically the device names of the new device. The next boot thing is easy. If you've ever had more than one HD on the machine with OSes on both the first and second HD's and used FreeBSD's Boot Manager... The first thing FreeBSD will show is the BootManager which goes something like this: F1 FreeBSD F5 FreeBSD If you don't do anything, it will always boot with F1 which is the first drive. F5 is the second drive, I don't remember the exact name as it varies. So if you hit F5, it will use the /etc/fstab on the second drive as it will use that drive to boot up. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"