>Will the following work:
>
>1.  Use the tools provided, label and newfs the new disk.
>2.  Mount the new partitions as appropriate.
>3.  Tar up the miniroot, and unpack it on what will be the root partition 
>    of the new disk.
>4.  Configure the network, and NFS mount an ultrix disk with the binary
>    distribution sets.
>5.  Unpack the binary sets onto the new disk.
>6.  Fiddle with /etc/fstab and a few other things as appropriate.
>7.  Reboot to the new disk.

This is similar to what we tried.  The only problem we had is that if
you tar up the miniroot and untar it onto the root partition, you also
need to get the generic kernel and boot that instead of the kernel
that comes on the miniroot.  

Steve