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From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: installing without booting off floppy.
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> if I have freebsd running and want to install onto another HD, what can
> I run ?  (can't boot from a floppy)

Install second hard drive and boot from first one. Then format second
drive and install FreeBSD on it. Of course, if you remove first hard drive
and make former second one first, device numbers/names will change for
its slices, so be careful when configuring system.

--
Alex