Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:56:34 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020201045634.GC3088@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020201044209.GB98085@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020201043052.GA2930@raggedclown.net> <20020201044209.GB98085@dan.emsphone.com>
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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
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