Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 09:57:48 -0600 From: Zach Thompson <hideo@lastamericanempire.com> To: "a.s.gruner" <plankalkuel@encephalon.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copy a harddrive and run that one Message-ID: <20020525095748.A57186@darwin.lastamericanempire.com> In-Reply-To: <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de>; from plankalkuel@encephalon.de on Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:18:22PM %2B0200 References: <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de>
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* a.s.gruner <plankalkuel@encephalon.de> [2002-05-25 09:18]: > Hi. > > I have a running freebsd 4.6-RC on my IDE harddrive. > Now i want to switch to an other harddrive, with the same size, but not > IDE, its a SCSI harddrive. > My question is very easy. How can i switch my running system, with all > my installed ports, the updates (i installed 4.0 on the IDE harddrive > and now i have 4.6RC running), and so on, to the SCSI harddisk ? > Is there a way to copy the partitions ? > Or, if not, what is the best way ? Just install a new FreeBSD System on > my new SCSI device and copy the ports tree and /usr/src from the old IDE > to the new SCSI (also the /home ), and try to build a new system with > the sources i copied ? Have a look here: http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php Zach Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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