From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 12:10:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA09515 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:10:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA09510 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA25835; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:10:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:10:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Zahemszky Gabor cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: how do I put in a new root partition hdd In-Reply-To: <199701161245.NAA00267@CoDe.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Zahemszky Gabor wrote: > > > This may seem like silly question, but how do I put in a new HDD, (IDE) > > > that will be the / or root partition, when I have another HDD as the > > > /usr partition, without trashing the secondary HDD and its contents.? > > > I shuld just be able to do a minimal install, and restore a DUMP of the > > > original root partition right? I can do that on another OS, what happens > > > with FreeBSD? > > > > Generally, the /usr partition is a separate partition. You can safely > > install to a new disk and rewire the new system to use your old /usr by > > modifying /etc/disktab. You shouldn't have any trouble, just as long as > > -----------------^ > > I think , /etc/fstab would be better for this. You are correct. /etc/disktab doesn't exactly exist :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major