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Date:      Sat, 25 May 2002 09:57:48 -0600
From:      Zach Thompson <hideo@lastamericanempire.com>
To:        "a.s.gruner" <plankalkuel@encephalon.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copy a harddrive and run that one
Message-ID:  <20020525095748.A57186@darwin.lastamericanempire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de>; from plankalkuel@encephalon.de on Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:18:22PM %2B0200
References:  <20020525171822.A856@encephalon.de>

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* a.s.gruner <plankalkuel@encephalon.de> [2002-05-25 09:18]:
> 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 ?


Have a look here: http://www.freebsddiary.org/driveswap.php

Zach Thompson

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