From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 25 17:35:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [80.65.205.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7623137B405 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.simx.org (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.simx.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4Q0ZNa6095919; Sun, 26 May 2002 02:35:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3CF02E16.3040209@rambo.simx.org> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 02:36:38 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "a.s.gruner" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copy a harddrive and run that one References: <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 wrote: > 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 ? > Thanks. > > asg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > As in so many other cases, the answer to this is in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message