Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Martin McCormick
This is a time when I don't understand all I know yet. I just built a system using the FreeBSD4.7 CDROM and then removed that bootable drive and temporarily added it to another identical FreeBSD box as a second drive. I added it hot for practice in an upcoming upgrade and used

Re: Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
try using /dev/da1s1a for the root partition slice of the hot added disk with the bootable system on it. Chad On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 19:08 US/Mountain, Martin McCormick wrote: This is a time when I don't understand all I know yet. I just built a system using the FreeBSD4.7 CDROM

Re: Mounting a Bootable FreeBSD disk

2003-03-11 Thread Martin McCormick
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: try using /dev/da1s1a for the root partition slice of the hot added disk with the bootable system on it. Oh my! I forgot about the swap partition. It works. Lately, every time I have written to this list, it turns out that I did something