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From: "Allen Hyer" <allenh@wtrt.net>
To: "Glen Foster" <gfoster@gfoster.com>
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Subject: Re: upgrading hard drives
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:03:30 -0600
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Glen,
  Thanks, that worked great.  I ran into a couple of stumbling blocks, but
was able to work through them.  Mostly just my inexperience.

Thanks again,
Allen Hyer
System Administrator
West Texas Rural Telephone

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> From: Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com>
> To: allenh@wtrt.net
> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: upgrading hard drives
> Date: Sunday, November 24, 1996 6:28 PM
> 
> Summary first, more detail about each step below:
> 
> 1) make sure your kernel supports your SCSI controller, build and
>    install one that does if you need to do so
> 2) power down
> 3) install the SCSI card and drive
> 4) boot DOS and install a DOS partition (AKA slice) table using fdisk
> 5) boot FreeBSD (single-user) off your IDE drive 
> 6) BSD partition the FreeBSD slice on the SCSI disk with the partition
>    sizes you want, installing boot blocks using disklabel(8).  Make
>    notes for step 9 below
> 7) make file systems on the ufs partitions using newfs(8)
> 8) use a dump/restore pipe to copy your IDE partitions to your SCSI
>    partitions 
> 9) edit the /etc/fstab file to change wd0 references to sd0 references 
> 10) powerdown
> 11) remove IDE drive, turn off IDE in CMOS
> 12) boot off SCSI, you're done
> 
> Addl. explanation:
> 
> 4) not absolutely necc., you can BSD label the entire disk in 6) (AKA
>    "dangerously dedicated" mode) but it can be tricky to write the
>    label to the disk as the area it is written to is r/o by default.
>    I forget the steps you need to take to do it but you can find them
>    in the mailing list archives.  To use DOS fdisk you would create a
>    DOS partition for the entire disk and then delete it before going
>    to step 5). 
> 
> 6) you may want to print out the man page for disklabel(8) before
>    doing this
> 
> 7&8) e.g.:
> 
> # newfs /dev/rsd0a
> # mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
> # dump 0fs - 10000000 | (cd /mnt ; restore rf -)
> # umount /mnt
> 
> If you need more explanation than that I'd be happy to try and help
> you. 
> 
> Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com>
> 
> >From: "Allen Hyer" <allenh@wtrt.net>
> >Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:17:13 -0600
> >
> >  I have a freebsd 2.1.5-Release box with a 1gb IDE hard drive.  I want
to
> >switch it to a 4gb SCSI hard drive.  What is the easiest way to transfer
> >the whole system from the old drive to the new one?  
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Allen Hyer
> >System Administrator
> >West Texas Rural Telephone