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From: wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford)
Subject: emergency recovery floppy?
Organization: My place on the Front Range.
Message-ID: <DoAGy2.30J@alisa.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 03:13:14 GMT
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I've got FreeBSD 2.1 up and running and was wondering how to make an
emergency boot floppy? I guess my real question is, how do I recover
from backups if the root filesystem or kernel becomes hosed up? I got
to thinking about this when I re-built the kernel to add more ppp (tun)
devices and realized that I haven't a clue on how to recover this puppy
if my new kernel is no good. Fortunately, it booted up just fine!
I've looked through the FreeBSD Handbook but, couldn't find anything on
this subject. I'm used to working with SunOS on Sparc machines and using
the following procedure:
1) boot from cdrom
2) make a new filesystem on root partition.
2) restore root filesytem from tape.
3) make a boot block from the cdrom.
How would I do this specifically on a FreeBSD system?
many thanks
--
John J. Rushford
Westminster, Colorado___/\_/\_
wjjr@alisa.org (alisa.org is powered by FreeBSD)