Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:51:29 -0700 From: Dave Carmean <dlc@silcom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (long) Simult. 2.2.5 --> 3.1 upgrade and SCSI disk swap Message-ID: <19990616185129.E6633@silcom.com> In-Reply-To: <19990617110108.H9893@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 11:01:08AM %2B0930 References: <19990616181145.C6633@silcom.com> <19990617110108.H9893@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 11:01:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 June 1999 at 18:11:46 -0700, Dave Carmean wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've been having some trouble trying to upgrade my old 2.2.5 system
> > to 3.1, and am looking for tips.
[snip]
> You'd probably be better off installing from scratch on the new disk,
> as you did after running into problems.
I was trying to minimize the work involved in keeping my current
apps, data, environment, etc.
> > Problem is: I labeled the new disk, mounted it, and used tar through
> > a pipe to copy /, /var, and /usr over. It booted fine from the new
> > disk, but the (Cheapbytes) 3.1 sysinstall upgrade did not see this disk!
>
> Where doesn't it find it? It should find the drive in the partition
> editor.
From the full-screen sysinstall menu to select the target disk. Actually,
now that I think of it, this might have been related to my use of
fdisk(8). I may run through it again to confirm.
> > After that failure, I did a fresh basic (Novice) 3.1 install to the
> > new drive, hoping to use tar or dd to then copy the old system and try
> > the upgrade again. But I can't directly get to rsd1s1{a,e,f,g} from
> > 2.2.5 now, because of the new device naming.
>
> So use the new names (/dev/rda1s1a, etc.). That's not a problem.
2.2.5's MAKEDEV didn't create them, and during this run, I'd used
"fdisk -i" so it was actually rsd1s4. I wasn't sure how to calculate
the device node major/minor numbers to make them myself.
--
David Carmean <dlc@silcom.com>
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