Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> schrieb: >How can I copy the existing data, to avoid a reinstall? I thought > >1) attach the hard disk in an external USB enclosure Ok, or just a USB SATA adapter...
>2) Partition int OK. >3) Copy the data (how? using tar/untar perhaps?) hmm, i use dump / restore for such jobs, but tar works too if you mount the root twice onto a own folder - i.e. /mnt/root - and use that. This avoids copying virtual files with tar and such tools. Dump automatically uses just the stuff on a filesystem base. >4) write the MBR (but how, from the command line? and I don't need the >boot selection anymore, just flat into NetBSD) Not shure, i assume you had to update the boot loader (depending from your boot loader tech/chain). >about partitioning then? I was thinking that perhaps a separate swap >partition is less useful on a SSD and a file might be more flexible, Swap on SSDs is very nice, but you should choose a really good SSD which allows more such typical i/o cycles / ops per life by cell quality and management. >since there is no seek time. A bit of filesystem overhead would remain, Yes, if you would avoid that - use two swaps (one "real" swap with highest priority, one as file with lower i would suggest here). hth, good luck, Niels. -- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT&Internet http://www.syndicat.com
