Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

From: Kent Stewart (kstewart_at_owt.com)
Date: 09/03/03

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    To: Tony Pagliocco <tony.pagliocco@asu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:28:20 -0700

    On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote:
    > I have a cd writer on my FreeBSD 4.4 Machine.
    > I'm new to FreeBSD and have tried using the burncd command
    > that is in the documentation. However, I do not think the
    > CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file
    > or directory is located.
    >
    > The command I am using is
    >
    > # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate
    >
    > What I want to do is copy a whole directory and burn it
    > to my cd-rom
    >
    > Can someone just give me a nudge to show me what I may
    > be doing wrong, command or location wise.

    I think they you really want to us mkisofs to create the image that you
    burn onto the CD-R. You don't see an fs on the CD that you can browse
    otherwise.

    Kent

    >
    > Thanks in advance
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Vincent Poy [mailto:vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET]
    > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:10 PM
    > To: Mark
    > Cc: questions@freebsd.org; Joshua Oreman
    > Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD
    >
    > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote:
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: "Joshua Oreman" <oremanj@www.get-linux.org>
    > > To: "Mark" <admin@asarian-host.net>
    > > Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
    > > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM
    > > Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD
    > >
    > > > > > cd /mnt/root
    > > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf-
    > > > > > cd /mnt/var
    > > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /var|restore -rf-
    > > > > > cd /mnt/usr
    > > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf-
    > > > >
    > > > > I have heard this before, but I never understand this part. :)
    > > > > How does creating a /mnt/root directory, and restoring in that
    > > > > directory get my / slice back? Then the restored data will just
    > > > > sit in /mnt/root! What good does it there?
    > > > >
    > > > > Or should I create /mnt/root as partition, about equal in size
    > > > > to the
    > >
    > > root
    > >
    > > > To mirror the root partition to another:
    > > > # mkdir /mnt/root
    > > > # mount /dev/<ROOT-MIRROR-DEV> /mnt/root
    > > > # cd /mnt/root
    > > > # /sbin/dump -f- / | restore -rf-
    > > >
    > > > You will not *need* to umount the root partition.
    > >
    > > Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device;
    > > great!
    >
    > But
    >
    > > how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that "restored" partition as /?
    > > Edit /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a
    > > nagging suspicion it will then still boot off the old / slice.
    > >
    > > - Mark
    >
    > Editing /mnt/root/etc/fstab and updating it with the new entries.
    > Perhaps you can make a script so that after the dump/restore.. it'll
    > copy /etc/fstab.new to /mnt/root/etc/fstab - the fstab.new file is
    > basically the device names of the new device. The next boot thing is
    > easy. If you've ever had more than one HD on the machine with OSes
    > on both the first and second HD's and used FreeBSD's Boot Manager...
    > The first thing FreeBSD will show is the BootManager which goes
    > something like this:
    >
    > F1 FreeBSD
    > F5 FreeBSD
    >
    > If you don't do anything, it will always boot with F1 which is the
    > first drive. F5 is the second drive, I don't remember the exact name
    > as it varies. So if you hit F5, it will use the /etc/fstab on the
    > second drive as it will use that drive to boot up.
    >
    >
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