Hi, I've put the install cd back in and dropped out to the shell then executed the commands.
#cd /dev #sh /dev/MAKEDEV sd1 #dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/sd1a Then dd reported no errors. Thanks Ben On 7 October 2011 10:08, Remco <re...@d-compu.dyndns.org> wrote: > Ben Short wrote: > > > When I get to the step where I need to copy whats on the first drive to > > the second but I get the following error > > > > # dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/sd1a > > dd: /dev/sd0a: Device busy > > > I suppose /dev/sd0a is mounted. I think you need to do the copying by dd > when sd0a isn't mounted. You could boot from the ramdisk kernel (bsd.rd) > and work from its shell. > > Another viable option might be dump/restore. (a.o., read dump(8), > restore(8), FAQ 10.2 and 14.10)
