Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system from the old to the

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Christian Walther
On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a replacement for this hard disk, which is a bigger capacity one - 80G. I have to move the existing FreeBSD system from

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:46:50PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: On 18/04/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop. The harddisk is 40G, with FreeBSD occupying about 25G, and remaining to Windows. I have received a

Re: Moving existing FreeBSD system to a new harddisk...

2007-04-18 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 4/19/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's assume the old disk is ad0 and the new one is ad1 and MS occupies the first slice (called primary partition) of each disk. So, FreeBSD then is currently in /dev/ad0s2 and you want to put it in /dev/ad1s2. [...] Thanks all for the