Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:14:14 -0400 From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: disk upgrade on dual boot system Message-ID: <F141dRkSPxrxiGJRRg30001e384@hotmail.com>
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I am "upgrading" from a Maxtor 5400rpm 8-gig to a Western Digital
7200rpm 40-gig.
I have a dual boot system: W98 and FreeBSD. I use the FreeBSD boot manager
(boot easy)
The new drive (WD) comes with a utility for copying all data from the
old disk to the new disk. A WD support person has told me that the
utility will have a problem with the boot manager and FreeBSD
partition.
I do not need to keep the FreeBSD partition (but I would prefer to
keep it for back up). It is 4.0 and I plan to reinstall to 4.6-2.
I do not care to reinstall *both* W98 and FreeBSD
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What I *think* I should do:
1) Restore current disk to it's pre-boot easy, pre-FreeBSD state by
a) taking out Boot Easy with sysinstall or the FreeBSD utility
(usr/sbin/boot0cfg)
b) use fdisk to delete the FreeBSD partition
2) install 40-gig disk and use WD disk copy utility
3) remove old disk (now a back-up), check that new disk will boot W98
4) reinstall FreeBSD
This seems a rather strange way to upgrade a dual-boot disk -- what
if actually wanted to keep FreeBSD? Am I missing something? Is
there a better way?
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