From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 18:59:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923D91065694 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310D98FC12 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:59:50 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KRK00IDZKRPND10@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4AD77127.1060805@videotron.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) To: Polytropon References: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca> <20091015203922.d98bc249.freebsd@edvax.de> In-reply-to: <20091015203922.d98bc249.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to prepare disk for dump/restore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:59:50 -0000 I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel & man pages etc that I have not even selected; and if I use postinstall configuration, that doesn't do anything. Or should I use fixit and then do the manual thing? Sysinstall requires already being booted... ??? Or do I do it manually as per Polytropon's recipe of fdisk, bsdlabel, newfs mount, dump/restore and use/play? ;-)