From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 25 8:56:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darwin.lastamericanempire.com (dsl081-101-239.den1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.101.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20EBE37B408 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 08:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by darwin.lastamericanempire.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 178A8251B0; Sat, 25 May 2002 09:57:48 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 09:57:48 -0600 From: Zach Thompson To: "a.s.gruner" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copy a harddrive and run that one Message-ID: <20020525095748.A57186@darwin.lastamericanempire.com> References: <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de>; from plankalkuel@encephalon.de on Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:18:22PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * a.s.gruner [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