Many alphabetically ordered thanks to Andrey, Manuel, and Richard!

Although I do *not* yet have the solution to the dump/restore issue, as 
suggested I tried:

	umask 0000
	tar -clf - -C / . | tar xPf - -C /mnt

After editing the fstab I am able to boot into the second disk. This 
suggests either I'm not using dump/restore correctly or there is a 
problem with them. As the first is more likely, that's the next stage of 
the investigation.

Key to this was Andrey's suggestion to diff -r "/" and "/mnt". Many 
critical files showed up as different that should not have been so.

So I can close this thread with a "Thanks!" and if needed I'll start one 
on dump/restore later. Once that is done and things are automated we can 
go to -current.

ciao!

leam


Andrey Petrov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:13:25PM -0500, leam wrote:
> 
>>The reason for the "dump/restore" vice the other options is that I'm 
>>trying to port a script from Solaris to NetBSD. The original script does 
>>an fsck of the to-be-dumped-to partition, mounts it on /mnt, dumps the 
>>twin partition from the live disk, and then umounts it.
>>
> 
> 
> Yeah, that seems easier with dump/restore. 
> I'd suggest to verify copied partition by comparing it with original one,
> if it fails i'd try -current.
> 
> And netbsd's dmesg or solaris's prtconf -pv would be helpful.
> 
> 	Andrey
> 
> 
>