From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 6 22:17:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17210 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newsguy.com (perry.co.pathlink.com [207.211.168.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17205 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reyesf@newsguy.com) Received: (from reyesf@localhost) by newsguy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA24215; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809070517.WAA24215@newsguy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" , "Ben Compton" Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 01:17:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 95 (4.0.1111) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Disk Copying Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 06 Sep 1998 19:52:02 -0400, Ben Compton wrote: The folks on the Linux groups would probably be able to help you best. On any case.... >purchased a 4.3GB Hard drive and I want to move Rehat over to the new hard drive. How about doing a basic install of Redhat on the second on the second drive and then copying the data over. If you have a tape backup I think there are flags for either tar or dump which may do what you need (i.e. mirror the data to a different partition). I think the most important thing is to have partitions of the same size. Also you probably DO NOT want to restore all the files. Files like fstab which would have the name of the partitions you want to keep the one created after the basic installation. Why not just leave Linux on the first drive alone and install FreeBSD on the second? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message