Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:19:55PM -0700, Chris Weiss wrote: > How would I go about copying an existing FreeBSD installation to a smaller > disk? > > I've got a 3rd FreeBSD install I can boot from and store temporary > files on, all the disks are in the same hardware, so there's no > reconfigura

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:55:36 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [8] The final step was to chroot [...] > [9] Finally, I checked the new `/etc/fstab' [...] Heh! Adding `one last "final" step' didn't really work very well in this case. I should have read the long message another

Re: Copying a FreeBSD install to a smaller disk

2008-09-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:19:55 -0700, "Chris Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I go about copying an existing FreeBSD installation to a smaller > disk? > > I've got a 3rd FreeBSD install I can boot from and store temporary > files on, all the disks are in the same hardware, so there's no