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On Monday 17 December 2007 04:27:03 Norberto Meijome wrote:

>
> FBsd isn't windows - go ahead and do it - if u can get the new HD and hook
> it up to the old box,  go into single user mode , partition the new disk as
> you wish, mount each partition at a time and transfer the data.

I understood that he wanted to move the drive to the new machine.
How would one do that?  I think it would just work unless the drive is very 
unusual.