On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, Marc Boschma wrote:

> That is to say would the following work.
> 
> Disklabel the disk.
> dd the boot block and root file system onto the disk.

I've done it up to this part.  At least back then, late last summer, it 
worked.  The disklabel of course got replaced when I did the dd.

> newfs the other file systems
> copy over source etc that I want.

Didn't try it, and not sure that it will.