Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 15:50:39 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Alex Osokin <ars@ars.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to another hard disk? Message-ID: <354BA33F.FBA9D0B3@san.rr.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980430104540.11935A-100000@ars>
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Alex Osokin wrote: > > Hello! > > How can I move my system to new hard drive without doing fresh > install? Is it possible? That depends on a lot of factors. If the new disk is *exactly* the same as your old one, you can use dd. If it's not, a fresh install is probably your best bet. I'd tar up at minimum /etc and your home directory, and probably take a snapshot of /var/db/pkg so you know what to reinstall. I recently did this for a customer so I know those 3 things are useful... If you have a lot of custom stuff, add that as appropriate. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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