Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:56:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: Joseph Gleason <clash@fireduck.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need upgrade advice Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106281648260.9354-100000@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <015a01c10003$bf8e4b00$0a2d2d0a@battleship>
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Joseph Gleason wrote: Thanks for the response Joseph. > 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 Here is my fstab for the 10GB drive and CD: /dev/wd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0s1a / ufs rw,userquota,groupquota 1 1 /dev/wd0s1e /usr ufs rw,userquota,groupquota 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > 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 I plan on installing 4.3 with just the 20GB drive connected as master on the first controller. After the install, I plan on installing the 10GB drive as a slave on the second controller (the cd is master on that controller). How will 4.3 react when it boots up with a new drive? Will it matter that that drive has a boot sector on it when I mount it? Thanks ========================================================= 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
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