From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 13:43:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.acs.oakland.edu (cliff.acs.oakland.edu [141.210.10.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C77A37B9E6 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajwoodbe@oakland.edu) Received: from w00d (ppp-pm04-dy-26.cd1.dialup.oakland.edu [141.210.16.35]) by cliff.acs.oakland.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA19332 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:43:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Moving FreeBSD from an IDE drive to a SCSI drive? Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:41:40 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone moved a FreeBSD 3.4 installation from an IDE hard drive to a SCSI hard disk? I'm installing a SCSI controller and hard disk in our current FreeBSD 3.4 server, which is currently running on an IDE hard disk. Since I've never moved FreeBSD between hard disks without re-installing FreeBSD, I figured I'd ask you guys to see if 1.) it is possible and 2.) what is the easiest way to do it? Is it possible to install the boot loader off of the CD onto the new SCSI hard disk and then just copy everything onto the new hard disk? Or would it be better to back everything up onto tape and then restore it to the new SCSI disk? Please point out any pitfalls I may run into so I can plan ahead of them. The reason I shy away from totally reinstalling FreeBSD onto the new SCSI hard drive is because I've put a LOT of work into customizing, securing, and optimizing the server and I'd really like to avoid having to do all that work over again if it can be avoided. I figure this process is pretty generic so I didn't include much system information. Let me know if you need any more info. Thank you for the help! Regards, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message