Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:43:42 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Userbase of -current Message-ID: <20010821204224.C4387-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <20010821235246.A75856@enterprise.spock.org>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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. Sounds pretty cool. Except the laptop in the desktop idea won't work as I have a PPPoE based DSL connection and my Windows desktop is the current LAN router which will be replaced by the FreeBSD machine. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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