Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:58:43 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved] Message-ID: <20110108014312.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinhHsRHoXrtkntEy-92ELYs=UauJv-83qdQjYDu@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinhHsRHoXrtkntEy-92ELYs=UauJv-83qdQjYDu@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:41:11 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for > > installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs > > commands if you want). I found I had to copy the base and kernel > > directories from the install ISO to a UFS-formatted USB stick first > > though since the LiveFS CD doesn't have the distributions. > > > > -- > > Bruce Cran > > > > Bruce, your a lifesaver! +1 for you and your wiki page. +1 for Warren's page > ( > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_way_tt_fdisk_8_tt_and_tt_bsdlabel_8_tt) > and +5 for Ian and his incredible patience. Hodgepodging Warren's and > Bruce's pages together got me a working base. Laptop is now installed w/o > the assistance of a boot cd or the usb hard-drive I was using. That's great news Chris, congratulations for perseverance. It could be argued that it shouldn't be this hard, but I don't need any argument .. > I did have to grab a DVD of 8.1 and burn it to a DVDRW, just so I could get > access to /dist/8.1-*. That being said, I think I am going to look at > setting up that same external hd w/ a full 8.2-R root when it's ready, so I > have a full, local tree to utilize for weird installs like this (I don't > know why I never did that before) Excellent idea. Just for curiousity's sake, after all that what do you wind up with for: # fdisk -s ad4 # bsdlabel ad4s1 ?, Ian
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