Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:50:26 -0800
From:      Oliver Iberien <odilist@sonic.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Moving to new disk - just new install + moving user data?
Message-ID:  <200701262350.26288.odilist@sonic.net>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the FAQ, under 9.2, "How to I move my system over to my huge new disk?", it 
says: "The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the 
user data over." By "user data", does that mean /usr as a whole?

It sounds like this would mean (for me, running 6.0/KDE at the moment), 
putting a (minimal?) install of 6.2 on the new drive, getting the peripherals 
and drivers sorted out, then using dump to move the contents of the old /usr 
to the new /usr. 

That can't really be it -- can it? And how does KDE fit into this -- can I 
just activate kdm after having transferred /usr over?

Thanks,

Oliver 



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200701262350.26288.odilist>