Moving on to another HDD

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I have QNX RTP installed on my Secondary Master.
How can I “Move” it to Primary Master?

Thanks,
Oleg Bulavsky.

2

Hi Oleg,

The best way is to re-install it, but copy over your
root.qfs file from the old HD to the new HD. That
way you can pretty much save your information and
everything you have setup.

The root.qfs is located in /Program Files/qnx/boot/fs
on your Windows directory (if you installed in Windows).

Also when you re-install, it doesn’t matter what size you
specify to your filesystem, as you will just copy over it
with your root.qfs file anyway.

Erick.



Oleg Bulavsky <bulch@ftc.ru> wrote:

I have QNX RTP installed on my Secondary Master.
How can I “Move” it to Primary Master?

Thanks,
Oleg Bulavsky.

3

Oop!
I have QNX installed into partition, not into FAT filesystem.
Right now it located on Secondary master.
But I want to have it on Primary slave.
I made those things:

  • create type t79 partition on /dev/hd1 using “fdisk”
  • create qnx4 filesystem on it using “dinit -h -d 1 /dev/hd1t79”
    But what next step?
    How can I copy actual data from one filesystem to another
    instead of copying packages filesystems that also mounted
    to “/” as well as my current /dev/hd2t79?

Thanks in advance,
Oleg Bulavsky.

Erick Muis <emuis@qnx.com> ÐÉÛÅÔ × ÓÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÉ:944acs$meu$2@nntp.qnx.com…

Hi Oleg,

The best way is to re-install it, but copy over your
root.qfs file from the old HD to the new HD. That
way you can pretty much save your information and
everything you have setup.

The root.qfs is located in /Program Files/qnx/boot/fs
on your Windows directory (if you installed in Windows).

Also when you re-install, it doesn’t matter what size you
specify to your filesystem, as you will just copy over it
with your root.qfs file anyway.

Erick.



Oleg Bulavsky <> bulch@ftc.ru> > wrote:
I have QNX RTP installed on my Secondary Master.
How can I “Move” it to Primary Master?

Thanks,
Oleg Bulavsky.

4

Oleg Bulavsky <bulch@ftc.ru> wrote:

Oop!
I have QNX installed into partition, not into FAT filesystem.
Right now it located on Secondary master.
But I want to have it on Primary slave.
I made those things:

  • create type t79 partition on /dev/hd1 using “fdisk”
  • create qnx4 filesystem on it using “dinit -h -d 1 /dev/hd1t79”
    But what next step?
    How can I copy actual data from one filesystem to another
    instead of copying packages filesystems that also mounted
    to “/” as well as my current /dev/hd2t79?

I think you only need to:

mount /dev/hd1t79 /slave1
cp /.boot /slave1/.boot
(to make sure, you could do sth extra like:)
rm /slave1/.diskroot
touch /.diskroot

and then reboot from your the new partition you just created.

It will looking for “.diskroot” in each partition, and using
that patition as /.

-xtang

Thanks in advance,
Oleg Bulavsky.

Erick Muis <> emuis@qnx.com> > ÐÉÛÅÔ × ÓÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÉ:944acs$meu$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
Hi Oleg,

The best way is to re-install it, but copy over your
root.qfs file from the old HD to the new HD. That
way you can pretty much save your information and
everything you have setup.

The root.qfs is located in /Program Files/qnx/boot/fs
on your Windows directory (if you installed in Windows).

Also when you re-install, it doesn’t matter what size you
specify to your filesystem, as you will just copy over it
with your root.qfs file anyway.

Erick.



Oleg Bulavsky <> bulch@ftc.ru> > wrote:
I have QNX RTP installed on my Secondary Master.
How can I “Move” it to Primary Master?

Thanks,
Oleg Bulavsky.

5

Why can’t any of these “new” systems be as easy to move as Mac OS?
You just mount the new drive and drag the old disk icon to the
new one. Then you open the new drive, then the folder with the
name and icon of the old drive, drag everything to root except
the new Desktop Folder. That stuff you drag to the Desktop. (Duh :slight_smile:
Disable the System Folder on the old drive, reboot and you’ve
just moved your system. Wipe the old one or physically remove it.
Changing SCSI IDs is optional.

Win9x is nearly as easy to move. FDISK, format and SYS the new drive.
From Windows copy MSDOS.SYS from the installed system to the new drive,
overwriting the new one. Make sure options are set to NOT hide
system and hidden files. From the root level hit Ctrl+A then Ctrl+click
on COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS to unselect. Grab everything else
with the RIGHT (or left button for the 1% of the 10% of the population
who is a leftie and sets their mouse up leftie) button, drag to the new
drive, let go and hit COPY. Shut down and change the Master and Slave
jumpers or on some PCs just alter the IDE device boot order if yer so
lucky to have a nice BIOS and you’re running on a new drive.
(But the makers of Drive Copy don’t want anyone to know its actually
that easy. SHHHHH!)

Xiaodan Tang wrote:

Oleg Bulavsky <> bulch@ftc.ru> > wrote:
Oop!
I have QNX installed into partition, not into FAT filesystem.
Right now it located on Secondary master.
But I want to have it on Primary slave.
I made those things:

  • create type t79 partition on /dev/hd1 using “fdisk”
  • create qnx4 filesystem on it using “dinit -h -d 1 /dev/hd1t79”
    But what next step?
    How can I copy actual data from one filesystem to another
    instead of copying packages filesystems that also mounted
    to “/” as well as my current /dev/hd2t79?

I think you only need to:

mount /dev/hd1t79 /slave1
cp /.boot /slave1/.boot
(to make sure, you could do sth extra like:)
rm /slave1/.diskroot
touch /.diskroot

and then reboot from your the new partition you just created.

It will looking for “.diskroot” in each partition, and using
that patition as /.

-xtang

Thanks in advance,
Oleg Bulavsky.

Erick Muis <> emuis@qnx.com> > ÐÉÛÅÔ × ÓÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÉ:944acs$meu$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
Hi Oleg,

The best way is to re-install it, but copy over your
root.qfs file from the old HD to the new HD. That
way you can pretty much save your information and
everything you have setup.

The root.qfs is located in /Program Files/qnx/boot/fs
on your Windows directory (if you installed in Windows).

Also when you re-install, it doesn’t matter what size you
specify to your filesystem, as you will just copy over it
with your root.qfs file anyway.

Erick.



Oleg Bulavsky <> bulch@ftc.ru> > wrote:
I have QNX RTP installed on my Secondary Master.
How can I “Move” it to Primary Master?

Thanks,
Oleg Bulavsky.