From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 06:09:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5BB1065674 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:09:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5C48FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:09:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so12564479rvf.43 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:09:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GF9AzMHyM0bCzc5yw5L6ORRc5tr68+LF0Q/2VcVfAYA=; b=l1CyKKD6GVTA0v/jR7Xd5GwNU2IOrAag+i/HFt3fdaGJgjZW9oDsNpbwZ4/J4DheBQ cNDinRVGHW4fLwQvU72vPsCotNtiE84eCzvkclHPXg3LHYWOr1snHpX47DG3JcidG6OZ FU2f2G0SytZ0mZBtL7kz9gEovaFm/NxSmvhdI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s0GZjFQAOxVW/28DauuKJUs7ULOXb2ow8No03xkK0MmfwF0Cy92doz0nix4n8njehS awDCJh4gROSjbygh2iyLundQ36AUYL5ecaPvJgPKcvlwVQr1lQW9TJ6Kl0o2UgIAGMi3 i/2j1tgEn2+Y4PFjvq26eQanZehQIKEDx01R8= Received: by 10.114.124.1 with SMTP id w1mr20036508wac.135.1231826993209; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:09:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.4.70? (c-68-35-57-46.hsd1.nm.comcast.net [68.35.57.46]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y25sm35295585pod.24.2009.01.12.22.09.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:09:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <496C3032.9060003@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:09:54 -0700 From: Tim Judd User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel References: <9F57CF00DDE541E69F500E26B652DDED@GRANTPC> <20090107205826.GA93439@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerry McAllister , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Replace SCSI Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:09:54 -0000 Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable OS on a labeled disk, it seems silly. I propose: Do a typical install of FreeBSD 6.4/7.1 on this disk. Let it be as full as to boot an operating system (but maybe skip out on the networking blah blah setups). Bring this (verified) bootable disk to the NOC, install it as da0 Move the old, 73GB failing disk to da1 Boot the Dell, maybe running in single-user mode You've got a pristine format (or pristine enough) to restore the filesystems on top of it. Rebooting with da0 again to see if your network settings, startup, apps, etc etc etc all start as appropriate. Only if this method fails, do you use the Fixit CD and "fix it" Am I crazy to think this is the more logical, more straightforward way to perform this migration? If Grant has already done the job, more power to him, but I just found it a little confusing that one would label a drive, format it, and possibly spend more time with the slower CD-ROM based Fixit than running off a nice, new 10k/15k RPM drive to drive everything. If my method above is failing a point, I'd be more than happy to hear your statements and correct my procedures for it. My method above has only one tricky part, is to restore the 'a' partition from olddrive to newdrive. -- and that is probably a piece of cake. Grant, good luck (if you haven't done it yet). --Tim