RE: Swapping hard drives

2005-03-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric McCoy Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 6:07 AM To: Ralph Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Swapping hard drives Ralph wrote: Hello folks I'm looking to do a quick swap on a hard disk I

Re: Swapping hard drives

2005-03-06 Thread Eric McCoy
Ralph wrote: Hello folks I'm looking to do a quick swap on a hard disk I currently have in my FreeBSD file-server. It's an old 30Gb disk, and I've bought a nice, new big one to replace it. The problem is, I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. I have Samba shares on there, and other

Re: Swapping hard drives

2004-01-22 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:32, David LeCount wrote: Hello. I'm swapping my second hard drive for a larger one. This is the drive with my / partition on it. Well I've made the partitions on the other drive and copied my data. I made the partition active, though every time I return to fdisk in

Re: swapping hard drives

2002-10-17 Thread Thanatos
default wrote: Just a quick question... I have a server running on freebsd 4.1 and want to upgrade to a newer version... BUT I need to keep my server online while I do this. What I want to do is a clean install on the current box that it is running on, and I am hoping that I can swap the hard

Re: swapping hard drives

2002-10-17 Thread DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'
You'll need to make sure that support for the new NIC is compiled into the kernel you're running on the old server. You'll also need to be prepared to address any network topography and security issues that come as the result of this host having a new MAC address, etc. OTOH, I've done this at