On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > Maybe I wasn't clea. This is what I did: You weren't :) > 1. Booted from CDROM, newfs, install minimal, etc. > > 2. Booted from ad0 to see the system up. > > 3. Booted from ad3 and dump/restore the ad3 partitions to ad0 using the > -L swich for dump, as the partition ad3 partition where mounted. sounds good. > > then copy the data over > > using tar instead of dump/restore. Tar like this should be close enough: > > > > tar -C / -cpf - | tar -C /newroot/ -xpvf - > > The FAQ explicitly says not to use tar but dump/restore. "You should > never use anything but dump(8) and restore(8) to move the root > filesystem" Thats only if you care about hardlinks and file flags (schg). It doesn't cause a wrecked system, though. > > edit /newroot/etc/fstab, change entries Did you remember to do this? If not you may have been fscking with the wrong fsck, and fsck from 4.x will trip over a UFS2 filesystem that a 5.x install would have created. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 15:16:19 UTC
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