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)
