Subject: Re: Cloning an i386 system ?
To: Philip Christian <philipchristian2003@yahoo.co.uk>
From: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/19/2002 15:39:31
"clone" with different disks is "make new".

Almost a FAQ.

you need to make boot blocks.

rsync, pax, dump into restore. several things that are
better than "drag".

Archives cover this as well.

Quoting Philip Christian (philipchristian2003@yahoo.co.uk):
> I am just building a NetBSD system now.
> 
> I have a second PC which is completely identical,
> except that it has a bigger hard drive.
> 
> Can I just take this drive, partition and format it,
> attach it as a slave on the first system, mount it I
> guess, and then just drag all the files over in
> Konquerer?
> 
> Or would there be a better way to do it ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Philip (new to Unix)
> 
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