On 26 Feb 2006 at 8:06, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 2/25/2006 7:47 AM Dan Langille said the following:
>
> >On 25 Feb 2006 at 7:17, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>On 2/25/2006 4:45 AM Dan Langille said the following:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 24 Feb 2006 at 23:05, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I'm trying to do the FreeBSD Bare Metal Recover as described in the
> >>>>Bacula manual. I'm having problems with step 3, starting an emergency
> >>>>console. I follow the steps and get a message stating that an
> >>>>"Emergency Holographic console" has been started on vt4. OK, I use
> >>>>alt-F4 and get a black screen with a # prompt. However no commands
> >>>>work. Even a simple "ls" returns "ls: not found".
> >>>>I am using the FreeBSD 6.0 install CD with which I installed this
> >>>>system. Any ideas on what I'm missing?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>I think you're using the install CD. Try using the Live CD.
> >>>Something like FreeSBIE would work. Or the disc2.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes, I'm using disk 1. Maybe the docs should be updated as step 1 says
> >>"Boot with the FreeBSD installation disk" which led me to believe that
> >>disk 1 was all I needed.
> >>
> >>I tried FreeSBIE2 and included the bacula client as a package. It
> >>almost worked but when I attempted to start bacula-fd, I received an
> >>error that was something along the lines of "libexec/ld-elf.so:
> >>libz.so.2 not found". So I guess I need to build a statically linked
> >>bacula-fd?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I would guess that. I don't know how to do that.
> >
> >
> >
> >>My current situation is the device that needs to be restored is (was)
> >>FreeBSD 6.0 running on a Pentium III 550 mhz box. My bacula director,
> >>catalogs, storage, etc. is on another box running FreeBSD 6.0 on a
> >>Pentium III 600 box. Thus binaries should be transportable.
> >>
> >>I'm still on bacula 1.36.3 as one of the clients in my network is Gentoo
> >>and there is no updated ebuild in the regular portage tree and as such,
> >>I've been hesitant to upgrade. So what is the best (easiest) way to get
> >>a version of bacula-fd running on the failed box?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I would install the OS, and build Bacula from ports. That's what I'd
> >do.
> >
> >
> I did this and was able to restore my system. Thanks for your help.
> However, I would like to learn how to build a statically linked version
> of Bacula from within the ports system and then have that package
> available to include on a FreeSBIE CD for future incidents. Does anyone
> know if this is possible? And if so, how?
Someone sugggested but didn't know if it would work:
make CCFLAGS+=-static
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