Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:00:36 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1013050836.6bc033@mired.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <15451.22100.63672.669042@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <518177@toto.iv>
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Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> types: > 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 ? Not only is it a reasonable plan, I've done just that to move a system to a new disk. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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