From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 21 23:43:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0116737B407; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7M6hia34273; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:43:45 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:43:42 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Subject: Re: Userbase of -current In-Reply-To: <20010821235246.A75856@enterprise.spock.org> Message-ID: <20010821204224.C4387-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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