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Originally Posted by Randux
If I do a minimal FreeBSD install on the new box and partition the slice and make filesystems, and then rsync my whole existing install on top of the new one will this work?
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Yes, if you install rsync & whatnot as necessary for the operation. The built in dump and restore programs should also be usable for that purpose.
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Originally Posted by Randux
Is there a better way to do this?
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If the disks are the same size, I would probably use a live cd, dd, ssh, and gzip out of laziness; and skip the install disk all together.
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Also, I have 500G to allocate to FreeBSD and the disklabel doesn't allow for many partitions. How would you allocate this much space for a general desktop box for development and a web server?
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