From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 07:38:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA6016A46B for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:38:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing-lists@msdi.ca) Received: from spamfirewall.msdsky.com (spamfirewall.msdsky.com [64.18.66.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8A913C457 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:38:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing-lists@msdi.ca) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1181201894-1350003a0000-jLrpzn X-Barracuda-URL: http://spamfirewall.msdsky.com:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: unknown[64.18.67.9] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1181201894 Received: from mail02.msdihosting.net (unknown [64.18.67.9]) by spamfirewall.msdsky.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 727BD64B6 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 03:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dell390 ([70.81.60.158]) by mail02.msdihosting.net ((iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003))) with ASMTP id QRI44553 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:38:35 -0400 From: "Ian Lord" To: X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Moving Freebsd to a new Server Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 03:38:01 -0400 Message-ID: <03f801c7a8d6$c712bc30$6400a8c0@msdi.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Aceo1sbxD8pHMExvS5ayZAdytbawXg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at msdsky.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Moving Freebsd to a new Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:38:15 -0000 Hi, We were in a rush to install a freebsd server without proper hardware on hand, so we used Microsoft Virtual Server and install Freebsd on it. I would like to move the freebsd installation to a real server and was wondering how to do so. I searched around and the solution seems to be to dump the hard drive content and restore it on the new server. Does anyone knows a good walkthrough of the entire process, I didn't find anything in the handbook beside moving freebsd to a new harddrive which I cannot do from the same machine. Basically, I need a way to dump the hd to file, transfer the file over whatever media (dvd, network, etc) and restore on the new machine. I'm not even sure if I need to install freebsd on the new machine or not since I guess I cannot overwrite the partition on which freebsd is running :-) Any help/reference would be appreciated Thanks in advance