do i need to reinstall

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 jrrelay at juno.com wrote:

> i recently bought a new and larger hard drive for my computer.  i put it
> the machine as '/dev/ad3'.  while educating myself about this new drive,
> i installed freebsd 5.3 on one of the  slices. i am ready to eliminate
> the old 'ad0' and want to move the new drive so it will become
> '/dev/ad0'.  will BSD operate in its new location without any changes to
> the configuration files?  perhaps '/etc/fstab',  and what else? or should
> i just reinstall freebsd after i have reconfigured the machine?

Definitely change ad3 to ad0 in fstab before you shut down and move 
the drive.

Kevin's right in suggesting you may need to add an MBR or boot loader. 
See the man pages for boot0cfg for the menu loader, or fdisk for the 
plain, non-menu-just-boot-now version.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA