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From: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: how do I put in a new root partition hdd
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:04:58 +1000 (EST)
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This may seem like  silly question, but how do I put in a new HDD, (IDE)
that will be the / or root partition, when I have another HDD as the
/usr partition, without trashing the secondary HDD and its contents.?
I shuld just be able to do a minimal install, and restore a DUMP of the
original root partition right? I can do that on another OS, what happens
with FreeBSD?

thanks for any clues,
robert

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