Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:41:55 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020201044155.GA3088@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> References: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net>
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:30:52AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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 ? > Oh I forgot to mention there is a Linux system on the machine, which will have to remain for the forseeable future, but it is static, i.e. it will never be updated beyond it's current state. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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