Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Roos wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris Roos wrote: One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not entirely sure whether this would do what I need? No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the ro

RE: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-07 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Good luck, Ruben -Original Message- From: Chris Roos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 07, 2005 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive Thanks f

Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-07 Thread Chris Roos
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Roos Sent: July 06, 2005 6:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive Hi, I've recently had the job of moving a FreeBsd installation to another

Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-07 Thread Chris Roos
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris Roos wrote: One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not entirely sure whether this would do what I need? No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the root partition you will

RE: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-06 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
ar] ./ 29. umount all open filesystems --> # umount /tmp # umount /mnt # umount /new_mnt 30. exit single user mode and startup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Roos Sent: July 06, 2005 6:11 PM To: freebsd-qu

Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Roos wrote: One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not entirely sure whether this would do what I need? No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the root partition you will need to edit fstab

Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Roos
Hi, I've recently had the job of moving a FreeBsd installation to another hard drive. After quite a lot of reading I got round to following this article[1] using a VMWare FreeBsd instance. In brief the article uses dump and restore to move the data from one mounted partition to another in s