From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 16:40:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17897 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17798 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:40:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA19773; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:39:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ev Batey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What IF, never learned, 205 disk on New 226+ host In-Reply-To: <35B25B38.956C7175@cotdazr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Ev Batey wrote: > What should I expect for a result if I disconnected my F.Bsd_205 (root) > disk .. installed a new 2-4Gb disk and brought up 226+, then remounted > (or tried to remount) my old root 205 disk to copy back partitions I > want > or even permanently reconnected /home..etc from OLD .. such as .. > > Better yet .. is it possible to modify the native 205 boot disk selector > to > go to a new disk or to the old disk as the boot device . . ??? Allow > either to mount pieces of the others (slices) ?? The filesystem hasn't changed from 2.0.5 to current, so it should mount fine. You can't easily dual-boot between FreeBSDs on the same computer due to the boot block design. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message