Grant Peel wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
<snip>
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"
This is good, especially if he wants to upgrade to the next
version of FreeBSD at the same time.
But IIRC the problem is not that the OS currently on the disk does
not work, but that there are some problems with the disk itself - but
that it is still readable. It is more about replacing the
disk with another presumed more reliable than the current one.
So, in that case, it is much easier to take the few minutes to
build the disk slice & partitions and then just do the dump/restores
than to build everything new and then hand pick the things he wants
to save from the old disk.
But, if an upgrade is done at the same time - probably a good idea
actually - then that hand picking will be done anyway, so might as
well do it as you say. I took it straight from his original
question rather than from the notion of doing an upgrade along the way.
////jerry
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
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Hi Jerry,
Since you original reply to my email is still my prefered method, could
you please resent it (if you have a copy in your sent items mailbox). I
am wrestling with Thunderbird (on freebsd) to import all my email
folders from OE, with no success).
I do understand all the various methods though and thanks to all for the
replies!
-Grant
You can visit the mail archives.
just attach the .txt file to an email to yourself.
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
