From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 17:33:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C2516A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:33:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5F543D2D for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:33:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@thebunker.net) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9B397652; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:33:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j2RHXhnR038591; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:33:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@gravitas.thebunker.net) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by gravitas.thebunker.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j2QDutsC001414; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:56:55 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:54:35 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Anthony Atkielski Message-ID: <20050326135435.GB732@gravitas.thebunker.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Anthony Atkielski , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1735169762.20050324050924@wanadoo.fr> <42426471.9040007@northglobe.com> <154939230.20050324195513@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H1spWtNR+x+ondvy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <154939230.20050324195513@wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:33:47 -0000 --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =66rom 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 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQkVpm5r7OpndfbmCAQLm0QP+Mp4s/E6uHbIE2RbhssARpVNm2KlZ1zoT ggWmV5RT7zzMRNlOcK0gAyX4fsS+8HGE+Je47yB6l4cKbEa2LVF+1F2/geWz1yDS QXWdTqSah1xMWxnzlSZZpLdJ/K5I/imFsXrFAQUc9e/mkLKbA0Q8RylnpgoasWck cP8V81iGYBM= =kqWh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy--