Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:41:11 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs commands if you want). I

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-07 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: fdisk -s ad4 bsdlabel ad4s1 [r...@blackdragon /usr/src]# fdisk -s ad4; bsdlabel ad4s1 /dev/ad4: 1453521 cyl 16 hd 63 sec PartStartSize Type Flags 1: 63 1465149105 0xa5 0x80 # /dev/ad4s1: 8

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs commands if you want). I found I had to copy the base and kernel directories from the