On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:38:01AM -0400, Ian Lord wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We were in a rush to install a freebsd server without proper hardware on
> hand, so we used Microsoft Virtual Server and install Freebsd on it.
>
> I would like to move the freebsd installation to a real server and was
> wonderi
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Ian Lord wrote:
Basically, I need a way to dump the hd to file, transfer the file over
whatever media (dvd, network, etc) and restore on the new machine.
Personally, I do a minimal install of FreeBSD on the target machine
first. That lets you set the partitions the way yo
Ian,
There's an article on geomirror on www.daemonnews.org that I use as
a guide on working with dump. I do exactly the same sort of thing
moving my FreeBSD machines between instance and physical on VMWare.
I've done it in both directions many times using a USB drive as the
medium.
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