Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 16:36:59 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: farzad@novanetworks.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions FreeBSD) Subject: Re: How can I mirror a FreeBSD hard drive? Message-ID: <199812262236.QAA19129@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199812241841.SAA20955@tssa.novanetworks.com> from Farzad Diba at "Dec 24, 98 04:09:27 pm"
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In a previous message, Farzad Diba said: > Hi Paul, > > I read your post about using dump/restore to create new freebsd- > bootable drives. I'm wondering how you prep the disk before you > mount it as a secondary drive and perform the dump/restore of the > filesystems. To be specific - > > when i mount the drive initially to /mnt and create the initial slice, it > is an 'e' slice. > > when i remove the primary and boot off the secondary the 'system' > is looking for an 'a' slice. > > how do i change the initial boot up process to look for the kernel at > > 0:wd(0,e)kernel rather than 0:wd(0,a)kernel? > > farzad diba I used the non-interactive features of disklabel and fdisk to create the partitions as I needed. You could also trick disklabel by having it do an automatic layout then change the partitions as needed. -- "It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position." -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Edison Supervisor of News Information, responding to a charge by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant operators were sleeping on the job. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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