Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:25:22 -0400 From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Moving from wd to sd Message-ID: <v03130300b21b41a6a8d9@[206.156.220.6]>
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We have a bit of a strange situation. We've recently had a customer move over to us and want their server upgraded. Now most of these upgrades we've already done (such as more memory, upgrade to 2.2.7, etc.) but we are also recommending that they "drop" using the internal IDE drive and instead use SCSI (they already have a 2940 installed and are using it only to drive a DAT backup). Now the process in moving the files from the IDE to SCSI are pretty easy (use sysinstall to format and partition the SCSI drive, then temp mount it and use a dump|restore pipe to transfer the file systems). All well and good. The "problem" is that obviously we now want to boot from the SCSI drive, not the IDE drive. I'm planning on just removing the IDE drive (but keeping the CDROM rom, which is also IDE... Hmmm. possible problem?) but need to adjust the MBR to boot from 'sd' by default. We'll have a weird setup (SCSI drive for FBSD but using the IDE CDROM, since it's not used hardly at all)... Any ideas on how to easily implement this? TIA! -- Jim Jagielski << jim@jaguNET.com >> | http://www.jaguNET.com/ j a g u N E T A c c e s s S e r v i c e s, L L C "Ah! I see you have the machine that goes Bing!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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