Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
manually ? There is nothing wrong with running sysinstall(8) on a live system. Can even be run remotely via ssh. Suggest you skip down to the (C)onfigure menu. Use (F)disk and (L)abel. Put your new partitions under /mnt/ or someplace separate from your running system filespace. Use

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Use fdisk to slice and do the mbr. In 4.xxx use disklabel to do disk labeling (partitioning) and boot block. In 5.xxx use bsdlabel to do disk labeling and boot block. Then use newfs to create filesystems in the partitions created with disklabel/bsdlabel. manually ? i know how

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Use fdisk to slice and do the mbr. In 4.xxx use disklabel to do disk labeling (partitioning) and boot block. In 5.xxx use bsdlabel to do disk labeling and boot block. Then use newfs to create filesystems in the partitions created with disklabel/bsdlabel. manually ? i

moving to larger drive

2004-09-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
could You help me in commands used to 1) create disklabel and mbr on blank disk 2) install boot loader manually ? i know how to do it in NetBSD, but here it's a bit different. i need to move everything from one disk to another. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
could You help me in commands used to 1) create disklabel and mbr on blank disk 2) install boot loader Use fdisk to slice and do the mbr. In 4.xxx use disklabel to do disk labeling (partitioning) and boot block. In 5.xxx use bsdlabel to do disk labeling and boot block. Then use newfs to

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-11 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 11, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: could You help me in commands used to 1) create disklabel and mbr on blank disk 2) install boot loader manually ? There is nothing wrong with running sysinstall(8) on a live system. Can even be run remotely via ssh. Suggest you skip down to the