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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2008 15:39:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd7 on older machines
Message-ID:  <20080510153904.D60491@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <48259F4E.7040700@pixelhammer.com>
References:  <20080509133949.53b83c29@gom.home> <20080510142202.B60043@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <48259F4E.7040700@pixelhammer.com>

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>> no. it will work
>
> You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to "clone" a 
> server from one piece of hardware to another.
but don't forget to bsdlabel -B then


>
> Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine
> Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1, /mnt/ufs.2, /mnt/ufs.3 (etc)
> Then rdump from the source machine
> Edit your conf files
> Reboot
>
> Easy as pie ;^)
>
> DAve
>
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