Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 06:58:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <dunham@rider.fc.net> To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron) Cc: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need help upgrading to larger disk Message-ID: <199705281158.GAA00293@rider.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <338BD138.12AD@barcode.co.il> from Nadav Eiron at "May 28, 97 09:31:20 am"
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Nearly coherently, Nadav Eiron wrote (and I quote): > Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:31:20 +0300 > From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> > To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> > CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> > Building a bootable FreeBSD floppy is a very nontrivial task, and it's > not required here. I was afraid that would be the answer. > What I suggest you do is: > > First install FreeBSD on the new drive. The easiest would be to set up > your desktop machine to FTP or NFS (I prefer the latter personaly) serve > the CD-ROM, connect the machines over the parallel port and set up PLIP > (Parallel Link IP, the lp0 interface - see the handbook for details). I know NOTHING about NFS except how to spell it. I'd best attempt FTP. > Then, simply boot the install floppy on the laptop where the new drive > is and install to it as usual. As usual? I've never done it, but with Greg's book here I ought to be able to manage it. I'm sure I'll screw SOMEthing up, but hopefully not irretrievably. > Once you're done you can boot FreeBSD off the new disk and repeat the > trick with the other laptop and transfer whatever you like out of it > (again, either with FTP or NFS), This part SOUNDS easy, but I'm concerned about overwriting the kernel or some other critical piece and bringing the whole thing down at a critical point. > or better still (if you can) have both > disks on the same machine (temporarily) and copy over whatever you need. This is what I wish I could do, but there is simply no physical way to accomplish it. These notebooks are designed for ONE hard drive. I can plug an additional floppy in on the parallel port, and MS-DOG will recognize it if not FreeBSD, but not another hard drive without a SCSI PCMCIA card that I do not possess. Thanks for the advice. I'll attempt this when I get home from work this evening. Any other advice is also welcome. -- Jerry Dunham GS650G Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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