From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 19:09:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08936 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA08905 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:09:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA05944; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:06:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:06:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Scott Morris cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sanity check needed In-Reply-To: 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 Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Scott Morris wrote: > I'm pretty sure that i've seen Doug answer this but i'd appreciate > a sanity check before i burn down my system. > I need to move my fbsd disk from wd1 (secondary ide) to wd0 (primary > ide) due to some really bad planning on my part. If i recall correctly i can > edit the kernel line in MYKERNEL to reflect the new drive and then rebuild. > When the kernel install is complete then edit fstab and change wd1 references > to wd0. Reboot and pray. Something like that. I actually copied the entire disk across, which is more of a feat than just swapping the disks. > This just seems too easy...i've got to be missing something? You might make sure that the wd0* files exist (MAKEDEV wd0), and rewire any non-fstab'd mounts, but otherwise it should work w/o a hitch. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major