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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:42:10 +0200
From:      Volker Kindermann <freebsd@secspace.de>
To:        "Casey Scott" <cscott@speakeasy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new bootable drive
Message-ID:  <20030711094210.3223b614.freebsd@secspace.de>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c3470e$a7cc6390$0801a8c0@nero>
References:  <000d01c3470e$a7cc6390$0801a8c0@nero>

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Hi Casey,


> I need to replace the drive that my fbsd boots from. I have read the
> documentation on how to format, and copy files to a drive.  e.g.:

I did exactly the same a few days ago and followed the instructions of
the faq:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK

The only modification I did was to give the dump command the additional
"-L" parameter for working of a live system. Works like a charm.

 -volker



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