Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 03:38:01 -0400 From: "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Moving Freebsd to a new Server Message-ID: <03f801c7a8d6$c712bc30$6400a8c0@msdi.local>
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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
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