Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:17:14 -0700 From: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to create a bootable FreeBSD hard drive for transfer to a new machine? Message-ID: <000c01c1250e$df47f790$f1ced7c0@SDHQLT0216>
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Is it possible to use sysinstall on a live FreeBSD machine with an extra disk as the destination? I want to jumpstart a new FreeBSD machine, without having the option of bootable cdrom (old BIOS), floppy (broken controller), or network card (don't have one with that capability). I used to build a DOS boot with Linux install files, and run a DOS loader (loadlin or something like that) ... Obviously, I have a lot of options given that I have the disk in a working FreeBSD-stable box - I'm just not sure what they are (the handbook could use a section on this). I've considered using dump/restore to make more or less a clone of my existing filesystems on the spare drive, editting config files, transferring the drive over, and running the new machine from that. However, I would still need some help with the proper invocation to initialize the MBR/boot sector stuff. Bonus points if someone can tell me how to build the new drive/system using the /usr/src build system. (Yes, I know how to install world to/from NFS, etc. - just need help with the boot-time stuff, and transferring over stuff that installworld nomrally skips ... e.g. /etc, /dev, although I could just copy from my existing trees) CC: replies to me, please. Thanks! -Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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