From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 14:23:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1437E37BB6B for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from prmoyer@mail.earthlink.net) Received: from mail.earthlink.net (ip104.wilmington3.de.pub-ip.psi.net [38.30.157.104]) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03699; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:22:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003292222.OAA03699@goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net> From: "Philip R. Moyer" Reply-To: pmoyer@hyperon.com To: miy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgraded to 4.0 - need to remake disk and slice In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:13:52 EST." Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:22:48 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frederick writes: >started a few months ago with a 3.4 CD I picked up on campus, and I've >been feeling good about FreeBSD since then. That's one of the goals.... :-) >I have been told that I must use ad0 and slice entries ad0s1a, but I am >not sure how to change this. Is it a matter of making the devices >themselves and then editing /etc/fstab? Having just completed the upgrade myself, I can answer this one for you. At someone else's suggestion, I remade all the devices in /dev. You can do this with "cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV all" as root. This should remake the important devices. Now, you want to compare the list of ad* devices in /dev to the list of your wd* disks in use (you want to make a list of your earlier disk slices, which you can get out of /etc/fstab or by "df"). If there are wd* slices without corresonding ad* entries, you want to use MAKEDEV to create them by hand. Once you have all the devices, you can go in and edit fstab to change the slices to the new entries. There are wd drivers in 4.0 for temporary compatability. Being the cautious type, I'd probably change something like /home and reboot, just to make sure it worked (since you can always fix /home in single user mode and reboot if something breaks). Cheers, Phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message