Re: switching a full system from an hd to another..
William Fletcher <[email protected]>
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If your new drive is wd1. fdisk -u wd1 Make appropriate partitions to match wd0: disklabel -e wd1 newfs your partitions... newfs /dev/wd1a newfs /dev/wd1e .... Mount all the file systems under /mnt.. mount /dev/wd1a /mnt mount /dev/wd1e /mnt/usr etc, etc... Then use pax to copy from partition to partition. pax -v -X -rw -pe / /mnt pax -v -X -rw -pe /usr /mnt Then, use installboot to make the drive bootable: installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rwd1a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:13:38AM +0200, Luca Sironi wrote: > Unfortunatly I must substitute the main hd (wd0) of a netbsd4-beta server. > What's the speedest way to do it ? > Can I simply partition the new hd, copy the whole file system and > substitute the hard disk ? > > luca > -- > listen http://radio.sironi.tk -- Omina Solutions | http://omina.co.za | (012) Ph. 664-2480 F. 664-2474
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