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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:04:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        Randy Primeaux <randy@Cloudfactory.ORG>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount wd disk in ad system? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012032201420.17444-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012040555.VAA06410@relay.ultimanet.com>

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I mounted a drive from a 2.2.4 system into a 4.2 system last week, and 3.x
drives aren't any different from that.

The device not found error possible indicates that you haven't made the
devices in /dev, ie; does /dev/ad2s1a exist?  If not, change to the /dev
directory and do:

 sh MAKEDEV ad2s1a

Ken

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Randy Primeaux wrote:

> I said:
> > What is the procedure to I mount a 3-STABLE disk in a 4-STABLE system?
> 
> 
> My procedure was:
> squishy is 3-STABLE
> daemon is 4-STABLE
> 
> I copied the approriate fstab entries from squishy to daemon, changing
> from wd to ad.  for example:
> 
> was:
> /dev/wd0s1a /             ufs rw 1 1
> 
> now:
> /dev/ad2s1a /mnt/squishy/ ufs ro 1 1
> 
> directory /mnt/squishy exists
> 
> disk was primary master, now secondary slave.
> 
> moved disk
> booted new system
> choose to not fsck new fs from old disk
> mount had an error regarding device not found
> 
> I don't have an exact error at hand; I'm currently using scp -pr to
> move data.



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