From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 20:31: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D133F37B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:30:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WVLh-000LIZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 04:30:53 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id F17E644F6B; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:30:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:30:52 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD List Subject: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 Hello, (One for you Edwin ?) My FreeBSD system is nicely ensconced on an IDE drive. I have enough space now to move it to a SCSI drive on the same machine. The SCSI drive has one small linux /boot partition, where I use Lilo to set up booting, I do not want to change this. I don't see any problem with just putting some BSD partitioning on the SCSI drive and moving stuff over, except I am sitting here thinking about the root slice. What do you think of this .. as step 1. I create a BSD partition on the SCSI disk and copy over my IDE root partition. Adjust the name of the root partition to reflect the SCSI device, remake Lilo with an entry for the BSD system on the new partition and try and boot Generic. I leave the current IDE root in place of course, so I will not be left stranded. Is there a flaw in this plan ? If it works I can then transfer over the rest of the BSD system at leisure. Any comments ? (I want to leave the Linux boot partition and use Lilo because I know Lilo backwards, and am not very comfortable with the FreeBSD booter .. on this particular machine there is also a Windows system for the usual reason (son plays games). Comments ? -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message