Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Sierchio
The brutal and brute-force approach can work - better if you boot from a USB stick, of course. You can untar base.tzx and kernel.tzx in your /, with filesystems mounted. As Polytropon says, do a backup of what you'll want afterwards. This approach will leave a lot of cruft (old versions of shared

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-14 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:51:15 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > It is possible to mount filesystems manually from the shell and have > bsdinstall continue with the install without formatting them. It's been > a while since I tried that, and I don't recall the exact details. > bsdinstall(8) sugg

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? Yes. The installer su

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-14 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > > >> Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > >> Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? > > > > Yes. The installer supports not formatting exis

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing partitions. The file system characteristica will be kept, possible conten

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? Yes. The installer supports not formatting existing partitions. The file system characteristica will be kept, possible content will overwritten. Note that "superfluous