[And I did read FAQ Chapter 14 forth and back] I have a working install on sd0. There are plenty of data on separate partitions on sd0 that I don't need, but it's a good install. Therefore I'd like to transfer the system only to sd1. dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c transfers the whole disc. Which will take days; plus sd1 is smaller than sd0. So I formatted sd1 (fdisk/disklabel) as I want to have the system, with the same system partitions (fstab) as on sd0; except without the extra data partitions. With dump / restore I copied the system partitions to sd1. Of course, it didn't boot. So I tried dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/home/mbr bs=512 count=1 and writing mbr similarly to sd1; but that didn't bring the proper results (maybe too linux-ish ?). mbr has the expected 512 Byte, btw.
I'm sure someone has done this: How do I transfer a system to another drive; including fdisk and disklabel; excluding some unwanted non-system partitions ? Adding another question: man restore says: # newfs /dev/rrp0g eagle # mount /dev/rp0g /mnt # cd /mnt # restore rf /dev/rst8 I don't understand 'eagle'; man newfs didn't give me much of a clue. Uwe
