On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Vadim Zhukov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:16:26 Donald Allen wrote: >> As I've mentioned in a previous thread, among the machines on which >> I'm running OpenBSD 4.5 is a Lenovo Thinkstation S10. 4 cores, 4 Gb >> memory, 2 146 Gb SAS disks on an LSI raid controller, arranged as a >> raid 0. >> >> Two questions: >> >> 1. In the past, running Linux, I've backed this machine up (to a sata >> drive in a usb shoebox) by booting a live- or install-cd, the idea >> being to have the system completely quiescent during the backup. I've >> been absolutely stymied in trying to do the same thing with OpenBSD. >> The install45 cd does not have enough sd* devices (the sd0 series >> only), so I can't mount both the raid 0 and the backup drive. > > You can freely create additional devices: > > # cd /etc && sh MAKEDEV sd1
Thanks -- I'll try it. > > For the rest of your mail - it's not clear, did you tried -CURRENT? I > remember there were some commits related to X38... I have not tried -CURRENT. I'll check the cvs logs to see if I can find anything that seems relevant. /Don > > -- > Best wishes, > Vadim Zhukov > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
