Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:54:22 -0400 From: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@fireduck.com> To: "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need upgrade advice Message-ID: <015a01c10003$bf8e4b00$0a2d2d0a@battleship> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106281432480.9354-100000@www.stelesys.com>
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I'm sure there is a manual on drives somewhere...but since I don't know where exactly it is, I wont tell you to read it. With IDE drives, the device name correlates to which controller, channel and slave or master on that channel. Suppose your new 20gb drive is master on your first ide controller. Then it is ad0. The first partition is ad0s1 (which is probably where you will install FreeBSD). ad0s1a is probably your root file system ad0s1b is probably your swap If your old (10gb) drive is on the second ide controller as master, then you could mount it with something like: mkdir /mnt/oldroot mount /dev/ad2s1a /mnt/oldroot The files you want to move all your users are: /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/master.passwd I think that is it. Other than their home directories, mail files, or anything else belonging to the users you want to keep. You will also need to run: pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd To rebuild the password database. If you have any issues or need someone to point you in the right direction, feel free to email me. I am out of work and have plenty of time these days. I make no guarantees though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 14:40 Subject: Need upgrade advice > Hi: > > I am currently running FBSD3.4R. I plan on upgrading > to 4.3R in the next couple of days. > > My current system has a 10GB drive. As part of the OS > upgrade, I am going to upgrade the drive to a 20GB drive. > The plan is to replace the 10GB drive with the 20GB drive, > install 4.3, then add the 10GB drive as a slave drive. > > What will freebsd do when I add the 10GB drive after > the install? What is the command to mount this drive? > Also, how do I copy my user and groups setup files to > my new system. Which files do I copy and do I need to > restart something? > > Thanks for any pointers you can give me. > > Jim > > > ========================================================= > Jim Freeze > jim@freeze.org > --------------------------------------------------------- > No comment at this time. > http://www.freeze.org > ========================================================= > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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