On 15 May 2002 at 14:55, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > > > A disk in remote 4.5-stable box started to develop bad clusters. The > > hosting company replaced the drive for me. I now have a 4.5-RELEASE > > system (they have 4.5-RELEASE drives as stock items). > > > > The defective drive is almost mounted in this box. I'm tempted to tar > > the old disk over to the new disk and get everything back running that > > way. It's that or upgrade to stable, install about 30 or so packages, and > > manually configure everything. > > > > How feasible is copying from ad2 to ad0 given that I'm booting and > > running off ad0? My thoughts are that it's faster but higher risk. > > Be careful spamming the existing files, if the tar keels over and eats, oh > say, libc....
Thanks Doug and Brandon. I'm going the upgrade route. I have tar'd an existing system to a secondary drive, but never the other way around. Sounds like unfun. cheers -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
