From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 21 20:53:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.spock.org (cm-24-29-85-81.nycap.rr.com [24.29.85.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25AC237B416 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@enterprise.spock.org) Received: (from jon@localhost) by enterprise.spock.org serial EF600Q3T-B7F; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:52:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jon)$ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:52:46 -0400 From: Jonathan Chen To: Vincent Poy Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Userbase of -current Message-ID: <20010821235246.A75856@enterprise.spock.org> References: <20010819093417.A88723@enterprise.spock.org> <20010819082443.W2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: telnet/1.1x In-Reply-To: <20010819082443.W2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>; from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:27:21AM -1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:27:21AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: > > Or, simply unplug the harddrive from your laptop and plug it into another > > machine to do the install. When I fubar'ed my laptop's fs not too long > > ago, I hot-plugged my laptop harddrive into my desktop, issued an > > "atacontrol reinit", and proceeded to merrily run sysinstall under a > > chroot. Of course, this is by no means "the proper way", but it gets the > > job done... > > This idea will work since I can always use the notebook hDD with > the adapter to the desktop but what does the atacontrol reinit do exactly > since couldn't I just do a fresh install and just move the drive? atacontrol allows for hot-swapping of ata devices. Don't worry about it if you just plan on installing the laptop drive and turning on the computer. It'll act like any other normal drive. -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message