Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:47:38 -0600 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Renaming USB device Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F772@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <20091111003430.a95d79c8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F75F@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <20091111003430.a95d79c8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>If you could elaborate more on the goal you are seeking, other useful info= rmation could come from this list. At the moment, it's just my wild guessin= g. :-) I have a bootable FreeBSD image on a USB stick that clones itself on the ta= rget system's hard drive, creating partitions and other configuration as de= fined in the cloning logic. The /etc/fstab on the USB image is hard coded t= o mount root (/) from /dev/da0s1a. However, other systems where the hard dr= ives use the same prefix as the USB stick, the fstab on the stick is incorr= ect (it would need to be /dev/da4s1a on systems with four SCSI drives since= those disks would be names da0-da3). So what we really want is a way to solve this problem--Have a generic boota= ble USB drive that doesn't need to have a custom fstab for different kinds = of systems.
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