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To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
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Subject: Re: HD transfer? 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I've been running a gateway/router on a failing 120meg hard drive for some
> time, i recently got a hold of a cheap 250 meg drive, is there a way to
> transfer my system to the drive without messing up the /dev directory and
> other stuff?

You can backup, install on the new disk and restore :)  You can also 
plug in the new disk, do an install onto it and then just tar/pax 
from one disk to the other.  Then you just have to swap the disks 
around.

> Alfred
> 

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