Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:01:39 -0500 From: Bigwillie <mvanberk@optonline.net> To: "Portwood, Jason" <JPortwood@strategicit.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: moving to another drive Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20001116215824.00a87400@mail-hub.optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA24F299@exchange.strategici t.net>
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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
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