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How can I move this system?
Solaris is a very stubborn OS and it refuses to cooperate on the box I wanted it to live on so I have to move an installed FreeBSD system to another box to make room for Solaris.
If I do a minimal FreeBSD install on the new box and partition the slice and make filesystems, and then rsync my whole existing install on top of the new one will this work? Is there a better way to do this? Also, I have 500G to allocate to FreeBSD and the disklabel doesn't allow for many partitions. How would you allocate this much space for a general desktop box for development and a web server? Thank you.
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Each disk allows 4 slices in the MBR. Each slice can have 8 partitions, a-h, of which 7 are usuable. So you can have 4 x 7 = 28 labelled partitions. Isn't that enough?
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Maybe...can one FreeBSD installation refer to the other three slices?
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Yes, for an example see http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2701#post20233
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Thanks, J65nko. But I was really hoping for 29 partitions
What about my question? Is the way I asked about the best way to move an installed system? (I can't get the installer to run on the other box so maybe this is moot ) 300 second timeout waiting for xpt_config and then nothing.
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If the disks are the same size, I would probably use a live cd, dd, ssh, and gzip out of laziness; and skip the install disk all together. Quote:
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Thanks very much, guys. The disks on the box where it's installed now are smaller than the drives on the target system.
The good news is Solaris finally surrendered and is now booting properly on the box I wanted it to live on, so FreeBSD gets to stay where it is after all.
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