Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:37:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Transfering Syatem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980430182552.18295I-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980430181835.228B-100000@pigstuy>
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Spike Gronim wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, William Woods wrote: > > Can I just copy it all over? Or would it be easier to just have a fresh > > install of FreeBSD ion the new 8 gig drive? > I haven't had to do anything like this before, but I would say installing > fresh would probably be a lot less of a headache. I have, and you do want to do the fresh install. If you changed/added a lot to your current drive that you want to restore, you can mount it and copy what you need. For an IDE drive with typical partitions (use /dev/sd* for scsi) # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV wd1s1a will make all the slice devices. # mount /dev/wd1s1a /mnt That would mount your old root partition on /mnt # mount /dev/wd1s1f /mnt would mount your old /usr on /mnt Look at /etc/fstab on your existing installation to get the right slice numbers, they'll be wd0 here but will be wd1 when it's the second disk. Oh, the dual boot may change the devices around too (I run everything dangerously dedicated) but making a copy of your current fstab for reference should make it clear what you need to do. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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