Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:36:14 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com>, freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disaster recovery. Message-ID: <20061006163614.GB65461@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <009a01c6e964$82c49300$6401a8c0@grant> References: <038b01c6e94c$37144760$6401a8c0@grant> <45267AAD.5040905@mac.com> <009a01c6e964$82c49300$6401a8c0@grant>
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In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said: > Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live' freebsd silesystem > via cd? Then setup the /mnt , setup the new filesystems, then use > restore to briung the real data to the disk? > > I guess my question really should have been, if you install a new > disk, or re newfs a disk, how do you start the machine, a freebsd > boot disk? (without installing freebsd to the machine that the > restore are going to overwrite anyway!). A livecd (freesbie, or the FreeBSD install disc 1) will suffice. I usually use sysinstall to fdisk/disklabel/newfs, then drop to the shell to run ifconfig, nfs mount the server with my dumps, and restore. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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