From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 28 05:58:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA09967 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 05:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA09960 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 05:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rider.fc.net (rider.fc.net [206.224.74.198]) by freeside.fc.net (8.8.5/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA15432; Wed, 28 May 1997 07:56:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dunham@localhost) by rider.fc.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA00293; Wed, 28 May 1997 06:58:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199705281158.GAA00293@rider.fc.net> Subject: Re: Need help upgrading to larger disk In-Reply-To: <338BD138.12AD@barcode.co.il> from Nadav Eiron at "May 28, 97 09:31:20 am" To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron) Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 06:58:52 -0500 (CDT) Cc: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey), questions@FreeBSD.org Organization: Not this week Reply-to: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nearly coherently, Nadav Eiron wrote (and I quote): > Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:31:20 +0300 > From: Nadav Eiron > To: Jerry Dunham > CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey > 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.