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From: rpritz@panix.com (richard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: move freebsd
Date: 7 Aug 1994 12:14:54 -0400
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i would like to move freebsd to a new partition. i have a spare dos 
partition (call it /c) big enough to hold my existing freebsd system

cd /
tar cvf /c/bsd.tar *
install freebsd from disks to new location (which is on the same drive as 
the old system, and install won't let me install two bsds on the same 
drive, so i'll have to delete the old system first) 
from new freebsd:
mount /c
cd /
tar xvf /c/bsd.tar

am i missing something? or should this rewrite the new system with the 
old system, which is what i want.

btw, does the -W option on tar test the integrity of the archive? i'd 
hate to have an error in bsd.tar

thanks much