Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread 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

Re: Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread 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

Re: Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread 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

Re: Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread 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,