From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 19: 0:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E156D37B404 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:00:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21904 invoked by uid 100); 2 Feb 2002 03:00:36 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15451.22100.63672.669042@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:00:36 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI In-Reply-To: <518177@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-RC-i386) 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 Cliff Sarginson 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. 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