Jesse Sheidlower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Originally I tried with dump, but I kept getting loads of > errors, so I switched to tar. I made one tarfile of /usr > (which is relatively large), and one of everything else.
There might have been a hint in the errors you were getting with dump. Note that you can't make a copy of a whole system with tar, because there are several kinds of special files it won't handle well. > (I actually had to install mount and tar onto the NFS > filesystem and run them from there; I'm not showing that > here.) They should've been on the fixit disk you booted from. > I then rebooted, from the new HD this time, rather than > the CD, and things started to work OK. But eventually I > ran into filesystem problems--sync problems, or other > things, and I had to run fsck -y manually to fix them. But > though this did clean the filesystem, the stuff that was > there wasn't what I had untar'd into place--it seemed to > be a bare minimun copy of the OS. This has repeated more > than once. You didn't mention ever doing a minimum install. However, you *must* have done at some point. > I obviously don't know what I'm doing, but would be very > grateful for any suggestions for how to get this new HD > in. I want it to be exactly the same as the existing one, > but with more room; I'm not trying to do anything fancy > or switch anything around. Especially by this point I'm > willing to do anything to get things working again, as > I really need my computer back! I recommend doing a clean install, and then restoring the original disk's contents to a separate subdirectory tree, to move the user data in from. I would even do a new install of your ports/packages, using the restored data to rebuild the configuration information. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"