Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:42:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020201044209.GB98085@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> References: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net>
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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
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