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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing a system from a already installed one
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061415590.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980805220108.15484B-100000@outpost.nada.org>

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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Spidey wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I would like to kno if anyone have ideas of a way to do a new install from
> a already installed system to a new PC. 
> I don't want to do any downloads.
> This is a connect-free procedure. 
> Let's say I move my HD to a new pc and I want to install FreeBSD to
> another drive. 
> 
> How? Is the /usr/src tree enough???

Eesh, ugly.  If you want to bootstrap off another hard disk, copy the
FreeBSD distribution files (bin, doc, etc...) to a directory on that disk
and tell the boot floppy to copy the files off of a UNIX filesystem.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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