From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 20:56:38 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 A986237B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:56:35 -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 16WVkY-000NT6-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 04:56:35 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id 7AF4744F6B; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:56:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:56:34 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020201045634.GC3088@raggedclown.net> References: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> <20020201044209.GB98085@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020201044209.GB98085@dan.emsphone.com> 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 Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:42:09PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 01), Cliff Sarginson said: > > 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. > > That should work just fine. > Ok, a short and sweet answer :) I shall try it later today. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message