Re: Advice requested -- how best to copy a disk

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-11-11, Adam Thompson wrote: > I think you've already figured out the optimal way to do it... I would > do a fresh minimal install on the target disk, then restore(8) over top > of it, to avoid having to fiddle too much with installboot(8) etc. If you overwrite /boot during restore, you

Re: Advice requested -- how best to copy a disk

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-11-11, Dave Anderson wrote: > It's clearly possible to boot the new system from an install CD (or, if > necessary, a USB stick with a full install on it) then fdisk and > disklabel the new disk and newfs / dump|restore the partitions one by > one, followed up by installboot, editing the d

Re: Advice requested -- how best to copy a disk

2014-11-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/11/14 14:23, Dave Anderson wrote: > My apologies for what seems to be a rather simple and not really OpenBSD > specific question, but searching hasn't found any good answers. > > I've got an old PC running i386 OpenBSD which is dying; the disk seems > to be good, but I need to replace the re

Re: Advice requested -- how best to copy a disk

2014-11-11 Thread Adam Thompson
On 14-11-11 01:23 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: My apologies for what seems to be a rather simple and not really OpenBSD specific question, but searching hasn't found any good answers. I've got an old PC running i386 OpenBSD which is dying; the disk seems to be good, but I need to replace the rest of

Re: Advice requested -- how best to copy a disk

2014-11-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On 2014-11-11 14:23, Dave Anderson wrote: My apologies for what seems to be a rather simple and not really OpenBSD specific question, but searching hasn't found any good answers. I've got an old PC running i386 OpenBSD which is dying; the disk seems to be good, but I need to replace the rest of