Re: Backup and restore advise sought

2003-08-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:57:35AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > 1. I'm concerned that the FBSD partition names will change. i.e., / > > was ad0s3a may now become ad1s3a and so on. > > Yes, this will happen, but not in the way you've shown: ad0s3a is > the first partition (a) on the 3rd slice

Re: Backup and restore advise sought

2003-08-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:22:12PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > My proposed solution is this: dump each FBSD partition to backup > device, and re-partition the drive. This time put the Windows stuff > at the front of the HD, and FBSD at the rear. BTW, I'll recreate the > FBSD slices at least as

Backup and restore advise sought

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm building a dual-boot (FreeBSD 4.8 / Windows) workstation for a friend. Initially, he wanted FBSD/WinXP so I gave approx 1/2 of the hard drive (the 1st half) to FreeBSD and the 2nd 1/2 to Win. I've installed, configured, built a custom kernel and brought FreeBSD up to -STABLE. I've al