From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 05:41:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA21732 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 05:41:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (www.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA21718 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 05:41:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id OAA22062; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:40:58 +0100 Received: (from zgabor@localhost) by CoDe.hu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA00267 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:45:12 +0100 (MET) From: Zahemszky Gabor Message-Id: <199701161245.NAA00267@CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: how do I put in a new root partition hdd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:45:12 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Jan 15, 97 04:10:52 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 -----------------^ I think , /etc/fstab would be better for this. And of course, if it is not, the same happens: install to the new disk, then modify that file (fstab!), to use the /usr from the other disk. Bye, Gabor