From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 13:56:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.stelesys.com [208.177.187.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232BD37B406 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:56:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f5SKu3j24215; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:56:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:56:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Freeze X-X-Sender: To: Joseph Gleason Cc: Subject: Re: Need upgrade advice In-Reply-To: <015a01c10003$bf8e4b00$0a2d2d0a@battleship> Message-ID: 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 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