From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 14 06:52:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA26085 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 06:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26055 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 06:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA21936; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 15:51:35 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA03094; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 15:51:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id OAA04943; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:53:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604141253.OAA04943@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: my hard disk is about to die.. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:53:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Mark Mayo" at Apr 13, 96 11:06:33 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Mayo wrote: > ANyone have any ideas? (I wouldn't mind using a SCSII replacement, but > I'm thinking just throwing in another IDE will save time.) You can safely replace it by a SCSI disk. All you need to do is, take the machine down to single-user, disklabel the SCSI disk, and: for filesys in a e f g ## <<- insert what you've got here do newfs -d0 /dev/rsd0$filesys mount /dev/sd0$filesys /mnt cd /mnt dump 0bf 10000000 - /dev/rwd0$filesys | restore ivf - rm restoresymtable cd umount /mnt done (Pick the correct slices for sd0 and wd0 if you're using slices.) Finally, mount the new root f/s again, and edit its /etc/fstab to reflect the new diskname. This should be all you need. You can now halt your system, unplug the IDE drive, correct the BIOS setting, and reboot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)