Replace SCSI Drive

[Tim Judd]

Grant Peel wrote:
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this 
>>> thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused.
>>>
>>> If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before 
>>> driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable OS on a labeled disk, it seems 
>>> silly.
>>>
>>> I propose:
>>>     Do a typical install of FreeBSD 6.4/7.1 on this disk.  Let it be 
>>> as full as to boot an operating system (but maybe skip out on the 
>>> networking blah blah setups).
>>>     Bring this (verified) bootable disk to the NOC, install it as da0
>>>     Move the old, 73GB failing disk to da1
>>>     Boot the Dell, maybe running in single-user mode
>>>     You've got a pristine format (or pristine enough) to restore the 
>>> filesystems on top of it.
>>>     Rebooting with da0 again to see if your network settings, 
>>> startup, apps, etc etc etc all start as appropriate.
>>>
>>>     Only if this method fails, do you use the Fixit CD and "fix it"
>>>     
>>
>> This is good, especially if he wants to upgrade to the next
>> version of FreeBSD at the same time.
>>
>> But IIRC the problem is not that the OS currently on the disk does
>> not work, but that there are some problems with the disk itself - but 
>> that it is still readable.   It is more about replacing the
>> disk with another presumed more reliable than the current one.
>> So, in that case, it is much easier to take the few minutes to
>> build the disk slice & partitions and then just do the dump/restores
>> than to build everything new and then hand pick the things he wants
>> to save from the old disk.   
>> But, if an upgrade is done at the same time - probably a good idea
>> actually - then that hand picking will be done anyway, so might as
>> well do it as you say.   I took it straight from his original
>> question rather than from the notion of doing an upgrade along the way.
>>
>> ////jerry
>>
>>
>>  
>>> Am I crazy to think this is the more logical, more straightforward 
>>> way to perform this migration?  If Grant has already done the job, 
>>> more power to him, but I just found it a little confusing that one 
>>> would label a drive, format it, and possibly spend more time with the 
>>> slower CD-ROM based Fixit than running off a nice, new 10k/15k RPM 
>>> drive to drive everything.
>>>
>>> If my method above is failing a point, I'd be more than happy to hear 
>>> your statements and correct my procedures for it.  My method above 
>>> has only one tricky part, is to restore the 'a' partition from 
>>> olddrive to newdrive. -- and that is probably a piece of cake.
>>>
>>>
>>> Grant, good luck (if you haven't done it yet).
>>>
>>> --Tim
>>>     
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>>   
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> Since you original reply to my email is still my prefered method, could 
> you please resent it (if you have a copy in your sent items mailbox). I 
> am wrestling with Thunderbird (on freebsd) to import all my email 
> folders from OE, with no success).
> 
> I do understand all the various methods though and thanks to all for the 
> replies!
> 
> -Grant

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