From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 9:27:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A7FB37B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 44856 invoked by uid 100); 26 Mar 2001 17:27:50 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15039.31766.799607.792546@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:27:50 -0600 To: Forrest Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to clone an existing FreeBSD installation? In-Reply-To: <129203990@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Forrest types: > What is the best way to accomplish the following: > > Have a working installation (4.2-CURRENT) on one 45 G IDE hard disk (only 11 > G are in use), and I would like to copy it EXACTLY to another, 30 G hard > disk, so that I can (hopefully) replace the 1st hard disk (the working one > has no errors) with the copy. Or is this too unwieldy? Detailed instructions and a discussion are in the FAQ at . http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message