Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:34:38 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd@houston.rr.com (Steve P.) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two slices, copy one slice to another? Message-ID: <200603141434.k2EEYcWU023548@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <441666C5.1030008@houston.rr.com>
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> > Is there a trick to copying one working system from a slice to another > slice? > > 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?) No, dump/restore is the thing to use. Was the second slice /dev/ad0s2 made bootable - when you laid down the partitions? > 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? The problem is probably that you copied it directly including /etc/fstab. So, /etc/fstab still points to /dev/ad0s1a at the root (/) partition and /dev/ad0s1b as swap, etc, etc Those need to be manually edited after the dump/restore to be /dev/ad0s2a, /dev/ad0s2b, etc respectively. ////jerry > Thanks. > Steve. >
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