question about partitioning

[d***@katherinehouse.com]

Does FreeBSD still have to boot from a partition with-in the first 10GB? I'm in the process of migrating to a new hard drive and don't want to end up having to reinstall everything. I'm dual booting between Win2k and 5.1. I haven't been able to find any recent information all the searches I run seem to only turn up stuff from 1996.

Also, does anyone have any tips for how to move my FreeBSD partition? Unfortunately I can't attach both hard drives so I might end up doing a dump across the network. What I'm unsure of is how to reverse the process and restore the system.The handbook seems to gloss over that part...

andrew

[g***@gbch.net]

On 2003-07-22, andrew morton wrote:

Please learn how to use the Enter key -- long lines are a PITA.

Please ask beginner questions on the questions list -- that's
what it's for.

Post by d***@katherinehouse.com
Does FreeBSD still have to boot from a partition with-in the
first 10GB?

This has not been the case for at least a trillion years.

Post by d***@katherinehouse.com
I might end up doing a dump across the network. What I'm
unsure of is how to reverse the process and restore the
system.

Try "man restore" and all will be clear.