Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 02:50:48 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: David Marsh <drmarsh@bigfoot.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Users <freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I mount a 2nd IDE hard disk FreeBSD partition? Message-ID: <23397.938566248@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:17:14 %2B0100." <XFMail.990929011714.drmarsh@bigfoot.com>
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:17:14 +0100, David Marsh wrote: > My new disk appears as wd0 wdc0 > (What's the difference? I'm afraid I'm really confused by these things > referring to almost(?) the same thing with scarily similar names?) Yep, wd0 is a disk managed by the wdc0 controller. > My old disk appears as wd2 wcd1 (I *think*!) Probably wd2 on wdc1. > I think that mount -r /dev/wd2s2a /mnt is the right mount-point??? Hmmm. What you really need to do is boot up the old drive and look at its fstab. Oh, and write them down! ;-) Each partition in there can be translated for the mount command as follows: When used to boot: When mounting: wd0sXY wd2sXY So if indeed you find that your root partition on the old drive's fstab is given as wd2s2a (I'd have expected wd2s1a), then the mount command required once you've booted off the new drive is: mount -r /dev/wd2s2a > but there doesn't seem to be a /dev/wd2s2a on my new 3.2 > system (only wd2s2, IIRC). Is this right, and if so, how do I go about > making the right device? Ha! :-) cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd2 > Plus being the end of a long evening trying to get this install to work, > doesn't help... :-( Anyone who can't understand what that's like probably isn't worth listening to in any case. ;-) Have fun! Ciao, Sheldon. PS: Try to post each message to no more than one mailing list, for various reasons I'm too lazy to explain right now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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