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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!bofh.dot!usenet.seri.re.kr!bofh.dot!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Crash recovery, 2.1 upgrade ideas needed Date: 24 May 1996 21:52:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4o5b2n$n9l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <betts.181.075C544E@onramp.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E betts@onramp.net (Jeff Betts) wrote: > What are my chances of installing a new IDE hard drive as my > primary, bootable disk and moving the current drive to secondary? I > could install 2.1R on the primary and migrate necessary files from > the secondary -- or could I? The chances are good. Unplug the second drive while installing 2.1, just to make sure. Once the new system runs (and you've created a new kernel), re-plug the second disk, and mount the file system there read-only to something like /mnt. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)