On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 14:52:39 +0900 (JST),
Mark Andres <mark@ratbert.giganet.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.  It did the trick.  Now if I can successfully
> install my backed up /usr on to the new disk, I'll be very happy.

Mark,

Assuming that the new disk is your sd1, and your primary NetBSD
partition on it is sd1a, the following command sequence should do the
trick:

newfs /dev/rsd1a
mount /dev/sd1a /mnt
(cd /usr; tar cf - .) | (cd /mnt; tar xvpf -)

Hope this helps,

Ken