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Date:      Sun, 26 May 2002 02:36:38 +0200
From:      "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>
To:        "a.s.gruner" <plankalkuel@encephalon.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: copy a harddrive and run that one
Message-ID:  <3CF02E16.3040209@rambo.simx.org>
References:  <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de>

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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
> 
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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

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R



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