Restaging from scratch

[Grant Peel]

Hi all,



I have now completed creating a new server from scratch using FreeBSD 9.1
and ports.



The new setup uses: /, /usr, /var and /home.



These filesystems have been dumped to a memory stick (root.dump, var.dump
etc).



The plan now is to completely zero out the drives on the other servers and
use these file systems to build anew.



The way I would have done it with pre 9.1 (i.e. 8.x) would have been to boot
using a live cd based filesystem, zero out the drive, create the 4 needed
filesystems using the graphical fdisk and disklable, mount the memstick and
rebuild the filesystems using the dumps.



I am at a bit of a loss as to how to do this using gpart.



If anyone is willing to explain step by step, how to boot, create the
filesystems, and make the disk bootable using 9.1 & gpart etc I would
appreciate it!



Fyi the disk would be da0 (SCSI 74G ULTRA 320).



-G

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[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Grant Peel <gp...@thenetnow.com> wrote:

>
> If anyone is willing to explain step by step, how to boot, create the
> filesystems, and make the disk bootable using 9.1 & gpart etc I would
> appreciate it!
>

The easiest way is to boot off of USB memstick image and use the installer
to partition and install the OS. Instructions are in the handbook as
always.

--
Adam Vande More

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:16:35 -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> If anyone is willing to explain step by step, how to boot, create the
> filesystems, and make the disk bootable using 9.1 & gpart etc I would
> appreciate it!

Obtain a CD or DVD image, or a USB stick image, and create
the media as explained in The FreeBSD Handbook. Booting
should not be harder than inserting the media into the
appropriate slot of the machine. :-)

For initializing disks with gpart I found Warren Block's
article very helpful:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html

There are also sections covering the topic both in The
FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ, but this article is a
very good "concentrate".




--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:16:35 -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
>> If anyone is willing to explain step by step, how to boot, create the
>> filesystems, and make the disk bootable using 9.1 & gpart etc I would
>> appreciate it!
>
> Obtain a CD or DVD image, or a USB stick image, and create
> the media as explained in The FreeBSD Handbook. Booting
> should not be harder than inserting the media into the
> appropriate slot of the machine. :-)
>
> For initializing disks with gpart I found Warren Block's
> article very helpful:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
>
> There are also sections covering the topic both in The
> FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ, but this article is a
> very good "concentrate".

Aw shucks; thanks.

For a USB bootable FreeBSD, mfsBSD is more capable than the install
CD/USB: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/