Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:54:35 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive? Message-ID: <20050326135435.GB732@gravitas.thebunker.net> In-Reply-To: <154939230.20050324195513@wanadoo.fr> References: <1735169762.20050324050924@wanadoo.fr> <42426471.9040007@northglobe.com> <154939230.20050324195513@wanadoo.fr>
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:55:13PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Can I boot from the FreeBSD boot CD and avoid mounting anything on any
> of the hard drives at all? (That's not a problem in this case, since the
> root is on a different drive, but if I ever had to replace the drive
> containing the root I'm just wondering how to go about it.)
Use Disk2 - the live filesystem disk - for that purpose. If you boot
from it, it puts you into sysinstall just like disk1, but you can
select 'Fixit mode' from the main menu and get a shell prompt while
running entirely of the CD.
Cheers,
Matthew
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