From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 15:51:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29485 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:51:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29480 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07381; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <354BA33F.FBA9D0B3@san.rr.com> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 15:50:39 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0426 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Osokin CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to another hard disk? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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