From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 19: 1:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (mx1.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.112.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C6037B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 19:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from s1.optonline.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eAH31e502043; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from downstairs (ool-18bcd16f.dyn.optonline.net [24.188.209.111]) by s1.optonline.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eAH31dT18540; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:01:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20001116215824.00a87400@mail-hub.optonline.net> X-Sender: mvanberk@mail-hub.optonline.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:01:39 -0500 To: "Portwood, Jason" From: Bigwillie Subject: RE: moving to another drive Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA24F299@exchange.strategici t.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In my experimentation, I accidently erased some files, and now a whole bunch of man pages are missing, and errors are popping up in startup. So Im currently reinstalling from scratch. I am saving my custom files (that I can remember) on another disk. So in the end, it was a little more painful that I would have liked but Ill be alright. Thanks for the info trini0 At 07:54 PM 11/16/00 , you wrote: > > Hey all. I tried looking through the archive and didn't find any > > solutions. Im trying to move my current setup of FBSD 4.1.1 S to another > > harddrive. I tried following instructions on > > www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd but no success. How does one move from > > FBSD from one HD to another. > >I think the instructions missed something. > >Have you made the drive bootable? I find that something that when you set >the drives >up with sysinstall it just doesn't do it right... Save on the installs... > >To make the drive bootable just. > >disklabel -B da0 > >man disklabel for more info. Of course change the da0 to your proper disk. > >Let me know if that helps. That's my first thought. Otherwise I can write >out the >whole procedure I go through (done it 3-4 times now without a problem). > >Jason Portwood (jason@iac.net) >Internet Systems Administrator >Strategic / Internet Access Cincinnati >Sales & Tech Support 513-860-9052 _________________________________________ Steiny's Studio Pachyderm Productions http://steiny.hypermart.net mailto:info@steiny.hypermart.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message