cvs2svn --dumpfile followed by svnadmin load gives problems

I'm trying to migrate a modestly sized chunk of a CVS repo to
svn.  I saw the admonition about needing direct file access to
the CVS repo, so I logged into the server and executed

    cvs2svn --dumpfile ~/tmp/repo.dump ...

That seemed to work just fine.  Then I tried to load it with
svnadmin load back on my desktop machine:

    svnadmin load http://svnhost:3690/repo < ~/tmp/repo.dump

svnadmin complained that I gave a URL path instead of a directory
path, so I logged into the svn server, cd'd to the .../subversion
directory and executed:

    svnadmin load svn/repo < ~/tmp/repo.dump

but it complained that

    file already exists: filesystem: svn/repo/db

I could have sworn I successfully did a cvs2svn conversion of
another part of our CVS repository a couple years ago.

Maybe I shouldn't be going through a dump file?  I haven't been
able to find a nice end-to-end example with specific paths.  All
the paths seem to be abstract.  Any help appreciated...

Thx,

Skip Montanaro

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