On 25 Feb 2006 at 7:17, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 2/25/2006 4:45 AM Dan Langille said the following: > > >On 24 Feb 2006 at 23:05, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > > > > >>I'm trying to do the FreeBSD Bare Metal Recover as described in the > >>Bacula manual. I'm having problems with step 3, starting an emergency > >>console. I follow the steps and get a message stating that an > >>"Emergency Holographic console" has been started on vt4. OK, I use > >>alt-F4 and get a black screen with a # prompt. However no commands > >>work. Even a simple "ls" returns "ls: not found". > >>I am using the FreeBSD 6.0 install CD with which I installed this > >>system. Any ideas on what I'm missing? > >> > >> > > > >I think you're using the install CD. Try using the Live CD. > >Something like FreeSBIE would work. Or the disc2. > > > > > > Yes, I'm using disk 1. Maybe the docs should be updated as step 1 says > "Boot with the FreeBSD installation disk" which led me to believe that > disk 1 was all I needed. > > I tried FreeSBIE2 and included the bacula client as a package. It > almost worked but when I attempted to start bacula-fd, I received an > error that was something along the lines of "libexec/ld-elf.so: > libz.so.2 not found". So I guess I need to build a statically linked > bacula-fd?
I would guess that. I don't know how to do that. > My current situation is the device that needs to be restored is (was) > FreeBSD 6.0 running on a Pentium III 550 mhz box. My bacula director, > catalogs, storage, etc. is on another box running FreeBSD 6.0 on a > Pentium III 600 box. Thus binaries should be transportable. > > I'm still on bacula 1.36.3 as one of the clients in my network is Gentoo > and there is no updated ebuild in the regular portage tree and as such, > I've been hesitant to upgrade. So what is the best (easiest) way to get > a version of bacula-fd running on the failed box? I would install the OS, and build Bacula from ports. That's what I'd do. > > >I hope you're just testing and this isn't an emergency. > > > > > Half and half. I'm trying to restore a "production" machine but I'm > only dealing with my personal network in my home. Thus I'm the only > "customer" affected. :) > > Thanks for your help! > > Drew > > > > -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
