On "Thu, 05 Apr 2001 20:46:02 -0400", Rebecca Ore <rebecca@ogoense.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, T. M. Pederson wrote:
>
>> On "Thu, 05 Apr 2001 17:15:08 -0400", Rebecca Ore <rebecca@ogoense.net> wrot
>e:
>> 
>> >while continuing to access information on present installation on
>> >another drive.  I will need to upgrade things in on the new hard drive
>> >which is at sd0.  A disk that was having problems is the former root
>> >disk at sd1, and the disk that I want to continue to use (my /news
>> >mount) is at sd2.
>> 
>> Are you still booting from sd1?  Or is sd0 running something of a
>> copy of it now?
>
>At this point, I've got an install on sd0 and am seeing if mv will
>put things in sufficient order to overwrite what I need to overwrite.

I've had better results using pax.

>I forgot to make the directories on sd0 which would serve as the mount
>points for the things on sd1 and sd2, but fixed that now and can cd to
>everything.

That sounds about like what I'd do, and have done once or twice.  In a
situation kind of like that, what I did was boot from some other
device (net/tape/whatever), mount the trees on sd0 and sd1 relative to
/mnt and /mnt2 (respectively), and unpax the latest known good binary
tarballs in /mnt (sd0).  At that point, adjusting /mnt/etc/* to
replace /mnt2/etc/* should be relatively straightforward.
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