From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 12:38:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03923 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03918 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07881; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:37:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <369277DD.8EC1963D@seattleu.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 12:36:45 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions CC: Graeme Tait Subject: Re: Transferring all data from old to new boot drive References: <36924895.5807@echidna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe you can't use an 7890 at all with 2.2.x. You may have to use 3.0 Graeme Tait wrote: > The system has a Adaptec 7890 SCSI controller, so my understanding is I > can't use a standard 2.2.7 boot floppy. I'm assuming I can use 3.0 boot > and fixit floppies, and use these to create the filesystems on the new > disk, and then transfer all the contents of a backup from the second > disk. In particular, I'm assuming that whatever I do with 3.0 here > (disklabel, making filesystems, restoring files) is compatible with > 2.2.7. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message