The 10 GB Hard Disk should have a BIOS Limitation jumper that will make
the BIOS think it is a 508 MB drive. Set that jumper, and the system
should boot.
Once you have that drive in there, you could create the file system
structure on it however you want, but place the / and /boot partitions
below 500 MB so that the system will boot when you take out the old drive.
Note that you will have to tell fdisk the correct geometry of the disk.
Otherwise, create the partitions exactly how you have them on your 2 GB
drive, making them larger as you wish, and dump + restore the files from
one disk to the other.
Once everything is copied over, you can install the boot sector on the new
drive with fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr
NOTE: Replace /boot/mbr with the path of the new hard disk!
For example, /mnt/boot/mbr if you mounted the new disk under /mnt.
After this is done, you can set the jumpers on the new drive to match the
position of the old one (master, for example) and simply swap it out.
Reboot, and enjoy.
Marco Radzinschi
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On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Mike Loiterman wrote:
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My current 2GB HD is reaching maximum capacity, is fairly old and
probably about to die. What is the best way to go about replacing
the drive?
Few points to keep in mind:
1. The system cannot deal with HD drives over, I believe, 8 gigs.
2. I suppose it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: its
critical to maintain the existing data! The machine is my web, mail,
ssh, vpn, and ftp server. Needles to say I do a full backup every
night.
Ideally I'd like to buy new drive and do a ghost of the old drive
onto the new drive. If you're not familiar with the term ghost --
in the Windows world there is a piece of software the allows you to
do a bit for bit copy of one drive to another and accordingly its
called Norton Ghost.
Would doing a full restore from my backup be equivalent to this? If
so, how do I preserve the partition structure and how do I actually
perform the task? Do I boot using the old HD, do the restore onto
the new drive, shutdown, unhook the old drive and reboot? How do I
know the data is unaltered and is an exact copy?
My last question -- How can I get the system to recognize larger hard
drives? I have been successful getting older systems to recognize
large drives using utilities such as MaxBlaster from Maxtor, but that
was using Windows. Are there similar utilities for FreeBSD?
I tried adding a 10 gig drive the system in question but the system
refused to boot with that drive in any place on the IDE chain. I was
also unsuccessful in using the MaxBlaster to enable the drive for use
on the system. Maybe I was doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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