From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 20:42:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF34C37B426 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:42:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g114gAs52040; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:42:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:42:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020201044209.GB98085@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 01), Cliff Sarginson said: > My FreeBSD system is nicely ensconced on an IDE drive. I have enough > space now to move it to a SCSI drive on the same machine. The SCSI > drive has one small linux /boot partition, where I use Lilo to set up > booting, I do not want to change this. > > I don't see any problem with just putting some BSD partitioning > on the SCSI drive and moving stuff over, except I am sitting here > thinking about the root slice. > What do you think of this .. as step 1. > I create a BSD partition on the SCSI disk and copy over my > IDE root partition. Adjust the name of the root partition to > reflect the SCSI device, remake Lilo with an entry for the BSD > system on the new partition and try and boot Generic. > > I leave the current IDE root in place of course, so I will not be > left stranded. That should work just fine. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message