Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:28:20 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Tony Pagliocco <tony.pagliocco@asu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question Message-ID: <200309031428.20956.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <A7AF1AE70A8C124593A1AC831EFE46FE01FC3650@ex3.asurite.ad.asu.edu> References: <A7AF1AE70A8C124593A1AC831EFE46FE01FC3650@ex3.asurite.ad.asu.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: > 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. I think they you really want to us mkisofs to create the image that you burn onto the CD-R. You don't see an fs on the CD that you can browse otherwise. Kent > > 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" <oremanj@www.get-linux.org> > > To: "Mark" <admin@asarian-host.net> > > Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> > > 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/<ROOT-MIRROR-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" > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200309031428.20956.kstewart>