Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:53:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Subject: Re: my hard disk is about to die.. Message-ID: <199604141253.OAA04943@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960413230139.15437A-100000@scooter.quickweb.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Apr 13, 96 11:06:33 pm
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As Mark Mayo wrote: > ANyone have any ideas? (I wouldn't mind using a SCSII replacement, but > I'm thinking just throwing in another IDE will save time.) You can safely replace it by a SCSI disk. All you need to do is, take the machine down to single-user, disklabel the SCSI disk, and: for filesys in a e f g ## <<- insert what you've got here do newfs -d0 /dev/rsd0$filesys mount /dev/sd0$filesys /mnt cd /mnt dump 0bf 10000000 - /dev/rwd0$filesys | restore ivf - rm restoresymtable cd umount /mnt done (Pick the correct slices for sd0 and wd0 if you're using slices.) Finally, mount the new root f/s again, and edit its /etc/fstab to reflect the new diskname. This should be all you need. You can now halt your system, unplug the IDE drive, correct the BIOS setting, and reboot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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