Hi !

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Marton Fabo wrote:
> What is the recommended method to migrate the whole system from an old
> HDD to a replacement one?

Install both hard disks in one machine, create disklabel and eventually
partition table on the new hard disk, install boot loader, and copy all file
systems with cpio -p to the new filesystems.

Preferably do this with all source filesystems in read-only mode and the system
in singleuser.

I did this several times now, works fine.

...Michael

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