Would like to put this in Off-topic however.
I had a hard disk fried (immediately) by an IDE-to-SATA port adapter. Fortunately, I had a backup from a few hours before and experience with a similar (disk crash) situation. It was a little tougher this time.
Bsdinstall did (maybe) a few of the things it was supposed to do, but when I wished it to install (per se) it only had alter-partitions menu(s).
Gpart I find the manual way too terse still, but it succeeded in putting an MBR on the new disk where fdisk, the USB stick, sysinstall and bsdinstall could not.
Sysinstall succeeded in partitioning the disk, and getting the arithmetic (not without "issues") :\
from another v9... installworld-from-thumbdrive ) Way too lengthy and difficult to detail here, convoluted (rsync'd /bin from the 2nd v9 but forgot sbin; then, I had forgot /etc, etc.) methodology to eventually restore the new v9 to a state where I could rsync from backup.
Generally impressed with the way things could eventually work if one knew the way around it from a few versions ago (and added that parameter above to my notes for the next instance). However each conventional method of reinstall encountered what could be considered a showstopper for most less experienced users. Maybe if I was more pressed for time I would have tried the pcbsd installer
Sorry for the non-guide. I have notes but it is sort of an edge case, better just to relate a few hints if someone else reading this encounters the same issues. Also I am pressed for time so consider the above only a draft of a more polished post.
I had a hard disk fried (immediately) by an IDE-to-SATA port adapter. Fortunately, I had a backup from a few hours before and experience with a similar (disk crash) situation. It was a little tougher this time.
Bsdinstall did (maybe) a few of the things it was supposed to do, but when I wished it to install (per se) it only had alter-partitions menu(s).
Gpart I find the manual way too terse still, but it succeeded in putting an MBR on the new disk where fdisk, the USB stick, sysinstall and bsdinstall could not.
Sysinstall succeeded in partitioning the disk, and getting the arithmetic (not without "issues") :\
Code:
newfs
df -aH
tunefs -j enable
labels
rsync
Code:
# /backup/usr rsync ... --size-only ... . /usr # note the dot
# see the other posts (search 'bwlimit' for the complete command)
Sorry for the non-guide. I have notes but it is sort of an edge case, better just to relate a few hints if someone else reading this encounters the same issues. Also I am pressed for time so consider the above only a draft of a more polished post.