From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 23 22:51:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9595F37B402 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F333BC7E; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA30965; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:51:08 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0O6rs101641; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:53:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Reversing Linux and FreeBSD running on same system without mutual self-destruction References: <20020123051538.GA3234@raggedclown.net> <20020124030238.GA1042@raggedclown.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 23 Jan 2002 22:53:53 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020124030238.GA1042@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: <00d7009r3y.700@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Cliff Sarginson writes: > Yes, I was not really wanting to burden anyone with the mathematics of > it :). Thanks, but it was hard to see what your problem was well enough to suggest a solution. > Having done that I guess I can boot the existing BSD system single user > and tar over the existing AT BSD file systems to the SCSI one. I can > adjust Lilo to reflect the new boot possibilities, I can adjust fstab > for the SCSI BSD..with me so far ? And adjust /etc/fstab on the SCSI, of course. > Now this is where I reach the edge of the desert. I need then a kernel > on the SCSI BSD system that will boot it. And this is where I need > some expert advice, will the installation of a generic kernel from the > existing AT system onto the root of the new SCSI FreeBSD system work ? I don't know SCSI, but I suppose that GENERIC should do that. If it doesn't work you could build a custom kernel on the ATA and move just the new /kernel and /modules over. > What are the gotcha's in this scenario ? Apart from the possible > devastation of a typing mistake (I just found quite a novel one > in the existing installation, which strangely has never had a bad > effect..but that is a mere detail :) The only thing I know is the limitations of tar. The only one I know of has to do with device minor numbers on /dev/*sa*.ctl which I think you can do without until you get a chance to run /dev/MAKEDEV. See sa(4). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message