From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 20:42: 3 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 5960137B405 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:41:57 -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 16WVWO-000LqI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 04:41:56 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id 7F4CB44F6B; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:41:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:41:55 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020201044155.GA3088@raggedclown.net> References: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> 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 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