From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 14:19:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24520 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:19:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt093n15.san.rr.com [204.210.49.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24453 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 8298 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Oct 1998 21:19:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:19:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Swapping out root partition In-Reply-To: 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 Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Doug White wrote: > Um, make a backup? I always do. :> > Copying the root partition is the same as copying any other partition, > just make sure /etc/fstab is accurate. Well, what I'm mainly concerned about is making sure that the boot loader gets onto the new drive. Is there an easy way of doing that, or will I need to boot from a floppy and reinstall the boot loader onto the new drive? ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message