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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:05:15 -0600
From:      hackmiester / Hunter Fuller <hackmiester@hackmiester.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@houston.rr.com
Subject:   Re: two slices, copy one slice to another?
Message-ID:  <200603140805.17907.hackmiester@hackmiester.com>
In-Reply-To: <441666C5.1030008@houston.rr.com>
References:  <441666C5.1030008@houston.rr.com>

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On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:46, Steve P. wrote:
> Is there a trick to copying one working system from a slice to another
> slice?
Yeah, but it won't work.
>
> What I envision is two slices:
>     /dev/ad0s1 - one complete install
>     /dev/ad0s2  - copy of first install, via dump restore. (Is this
> where I screwed up?)
Yeah... see the issue is, FreeBSD refers to itself as "the first slice" in=
=20
order to find itself... so you can backup to the second slice, but if you=20
need to use it, you'll have to copy the second slice over the first one.
>
>     I tried this, but upon reboot, I could see both installs. I was given=
 a
>     choice of the two, but F2 only booted the first install.
>     What is the trick?
>     Thanks.
>     Steve.
>
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