Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:16:16 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving a system from IDE --> SCSI Message-ID: <20020203121616.GA2938@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020202093406.GA1111@raggedclown.net> References: <15451.22100.63672.669042@guru.mired.org> <20020202093406.GA1111@raggedclown.net>
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On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:34:06AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:00:36PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> types: > > > Hello, > > > (One for you Edwin ?) > > > My FreeBSD system is nicely ensconced on an IDE drive. > > > I have enough space now to move it to a SCSI drive on > > > the same machine. > > > The SCSI drive has one small linux /boot partition, where > > > I use Lilo to set up booting, I do not want to change this. > > > > > > I don't see any problem with just putting some BSD partitioning > > > on the SCSI drive and moving stuff over, except I am sitting here > > > thinking about the root slice. > > > What do you think of this .. as step 1. > > > I create a BSD partition on the SCSI disk and copy over my > > > IDE root partition. Adjust the name of the root partition to > > > reflect the SCSI device, remake Lilo with an entry for the BSD > > > system on the new partition and try and boot Generic. > > > I leave the current IDE root in place of course, so I will not be > > > left stranded. > > > Is there a flaw in this plan ? > > > If it works I can then transfer over the rest of the BSD system > > > at leisure. > > > Any comments ? > > > > Not only is it a reasonable plan, I've done just that to move a system > > to a new disk. > > > Plan succeeded, except using tar to copy /dev does funny things to the > permissions..apart from that... > I must own up here, someone very kindly pointed out to me that tar is not the right tool to use for what I did, it has documented problems with /dev... So this is a RTFM message to myself.. :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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