From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 10:14:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A64D37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f141.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5F343E75 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:14:14 -0700 Received: from 66.89.179.250 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:14:14 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.89.179.250] Reply-To: jmd17@columbia.edu From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: disk upgrade on dual boot system Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:14:14 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Sep 2002 17:14:14.0699 (UTC) FILETIME=[D0471FB0:01C25F36] 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 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 ================================= 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? The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this email for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of its content to any other person. Contents of this email should not be relied upon as complete or accurate and is subject to change without notice. (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message