Re: image of a harddrive

["David S." <dgjs@acm.org>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:50:58PM +0100, Tom Van de Wiele wrote:
> I have the same question.  I will need to change disks soon, so I'll
> have to take my obsd partition, and get it on another harddrive
> somehow... Its on an old quantum disk right now (700meg) and I want to
> put it on a 4,3 gig Seagate HDD.  Can ghost do this? Or are there any
> other programs that can do this?

Install your new disk and partition it as you see fit.  Then, in 
single-user mode, use dump(8) to copy your old partitions to the 
new.  Install the MBR with installboot(8).  Re-boot from the new 
disk.  If everything's copacetic, remove the old one.

David S.

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> regards
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> 
> Tom Van de Wiele
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