Dear NetBSD/alpha:

Is it possible to create a system disk by copying the contents of a 
disk that has NetBSD installed on it to another one?

I thought the following scheme might work, but I'm not sure how cp 
will treat device files and sockets (and possibly other files I don't 
understand).

Assuming a working machine has one disk with / and /usr partitions, 
create partitions on a second one, at least as large as those on the 
first, and then (pardon the pseudo-code in the third line)...

# mount /dev/sd1a /mnt
# cd /
# cp -Rp ***list of files and directories in `/' except for usr*** /mnt
# umount /mnt
# mount /dev/sd1d /mnt
# cd /usr
# cp -Rp * /mnt
# umount /mnt
# /usr/mdec/installboot -v /dev/rsd1c /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs

Perhaps there's a recognised standard way of doing this that I don't 
know about?  Can dd do it, even if the size of the partions on the 
two disks are not the same?


Ray