From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 16:11:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA08513 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA08507 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA07848; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:10:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:10:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Robert Chalmers cc: bsd Subject: Re: how do I put in a new root partition hdd In-Reply-To: <199701150604.QAA01908@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote: > This may seem like silly question, but how do I put in a new HDD, (IDE) > that will be the / or root partition, when I have another HDD as the > /usr partition, without trashing the secondary HDD and its contents.? > I shuld just be able to do a minimal install, and restore a DUMP of the > original root partition right? I can do that on another OS, what happens > with FreeBSD? Generally, the /usr partition is a separate partition. You can safely install to a new disk and rewire the new system to use your old /usr by modifying /etc/disktab. You shouldn't have any trouble, just as long as you keep sysinstall away from that disk:) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major