how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel man pages etc that I have not even selected; and if I use postinstall configuration, that doesn't do anything. Or should I use fixit and then do the manual thing?

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel man pages etc that I have not even selected; Just don't go through the whole installation

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread Tobias Rehbein
Am Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:17:43PM +0200 schrieb Polytropon: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: You can use sysinstall from the Fixit CD, too. That's the way I'm mostly doing this kind of thing: Preparing the disk with the sysinstall tool, then dropping to

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:20 +0200, Tobias Rehbein tobias.rehb...@web.de wrote: If all you want to do is to prepare the disks you can leave sysinstall alone and use sade(8). Very good advice! Sadly, it makes me feel that all my knowledge is very outdated because sade didn't come into my mind

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel man pages etc that I have not even selected; Just don't go

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Tobias Rehbein wrote: Am Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:17:43PM +0200 schrieb Polytropon: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: You can use sysinstall from the Fixit CD, too. That's the way I'm mostly doing this kind of thing: Preparing the disk with the