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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tranfer of system
Date: 23 Jun 1996 04:38:37 GMT
Organization: CICDO
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In article <4qh8i6$ot3@ustsu10.ust.hk>, Allo Hui <ee_allo@uxmail.ust.hk> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a FreeBSD system in a 1G harddisk. Now, I want to transfer
>the whole system to a 2G harddisk. Any easy method to tranfer the whole
>system tso that I have no need to setup and configure the whole system
>again??

Will the 1G disk remain in the same system?  If so, you could just leave
the stuff on the 1G disk where it is and mount the 2G drive as /usr
(for example).

If this is not to your liking (possibly because you want to sell the
1G drive or put it into another system), temporarily put the 1G
and 2G disks onto the same system.  Setup the 2G disk (partitions,
newfs, etc.).  Then build a giant tarball of the first system and
detar it onto the second disk...