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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2004 04:08:31 -0800
From:      "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Noah <admin2@enabled.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: backup drive bootabel
Message-ID:  <20040105120643.M537@enabled.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031221004520.GB22276@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20031112154647.M33110@enabled.com> <3FB25926.2000109@rtl.org> <20031112171905.M63476@enabled.com> <20031112182055.GC24384@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031112223108.M65151@enabled.com> <20031113100504.GB33477@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031126143823.M26427@enabled.com> <20031126152833.GA7575@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031220200516.M74299@enabled.com> <20031221004520.GB22276@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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> 
> Looks OK to me -- you have got backups of anything important on that
> disk haven't you?  This sort of operation has a high risk of trashing
> the drive contents if you don't get things quite right.


Thank you so much Matthew,

I just did an ls of the drive on da1.  can I assume that the contents of this
drive did not get trashed?

thanks so much for all your assistance.  excellent responses.

Happy New Year,

- Noah



> 
> Yes, you'll need to set the slice (da1s1) bootable if you want this 
> as an alternate boot device.  That shouldn't affect the default auto 
> boot process performed by the boot loader, unless you interrupt the boot
> process and change the device selection there manually.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> -- 
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