On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:17:41AM +0100, Andrew Smallshaw wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 05:07:19PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > > > 1) attach the hard disk in an external USB enclosure > > 2) Partition int > > 3) Copy the data (how? using tar/untar perhaps?) > > 4) write the MBR (but how, from the command line? and I don't need > > the boot selection anymore, just flat into NetBSD) > > Briefly, fdisk then disklabel then newfs the new root partition. > No need for tar etc if you're mounting it in a USB enclosure, a > simple cp -Rp will do the trick. Making the disk bootable is > slightly more tricky, you need to install the MBR and then the > primary and secondary boot code (man installboot). >
Are you sure that "cp -Rp" will suffice? I have a foggy memory that it removes the sticky bit? I would use pax as described in the raid part of the NetBSD guide. Regards, Jimmy -- If you don't shoot the bearers of bad news, people will keep bringing it to you.
