Re: Need an up-to-date, accurate, complete install doc

At 11:11 AM -0400 21/04/2004, Michael Thibault wrote:

>cd /SRC; dump 0f - . | (cd /DST; restore -rf -) does work.
...
>I've done the dump/restore thing.

This generic command, however, seems to create a /usr directory on the
partition. I think the effect is that, for example, the fstabbed partition
mounted at /usr on reboot contains, not the requisite files and
directories, but a single directory - also "usr" - that, in turn, does
contain what should be found in /usr per se.

IOW, at boot rc does mount anothe partition as /usr, but finds nothing in
/usr that should be there; instead, what's required is in /usr/usr... Make
sense?

I'm supposing that this nesting is responsible for the error messages I
reported earlier.

>Now booting seems to mount the partitions at the desired points, but things
>get hung up on an error message:
>
>... init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttye0: No
>such file or directory

If so, instead of:

cd /oldusr; dump 0f - . | (cd /usr; restore -rf -)

where /dev/sd0e is the partition I'd like to use for /usr;
the post-base-install /usr has been mv'ed to /oldusr; and,
the named partition has been mounted on /usr, should I use:

cp -Rf /oldusr /usr

or some variant of:

cd /oldusr; dump 0f - . | (cd /usr; restore -rf -)?

p.s. I'm currently re-installing, just for kicks.