freebsd7 on older machines

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat May 10 13:39:29 UTC 2008


>> no. it will work
>
> You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to "clone" a 
> server from one piece of hardware to another.
but don't forget to bsdlabel -B then


>
> Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine
> Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1, /mnt/ufs.2, /mnt/ufs.3 (etc)
> Then rdump from the source machine
> Edit your conf files
> Reboot
>
> Easy as pie ;^)
>
> DAve
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