From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 20 9:18:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8181B14F4D for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:18:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de) Received: from merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.121]) by dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA21609 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:18:34 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 54144 invoked by uid 145); 20 Jan 2000 17:18:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jan 2000 17:18:34 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:18:34 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Conrad To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy? In-Reply-To: <6270.948303162@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Why was it removed? > > If there are no good reasons, please could somebody put back rsh onto the > > floppy! Currently I don't see how to do cloning easily without rsh? > > The fixit floppy is very full and its days as a truly useful tool are > sort of numbered. Well - after thinking on this for a while I'd still suggest to eliminate telnet in favor of rsh/rlogin. The reason is that you can really do a *lot* of things with rsh (especially compared to telnet..) I now resolved the problem by mounting the root dir of the other machine by nfs and copying directly from that. Doing this I found - to my great surprise - that FreeBSD's root filesystem neither contains rsh/rlogin nor tar!! I would *strongly* suggest to put rsh/rlogin + tar onto the root filesystem. I allways found these commands to be *extremely* useful in single user mode with all other partitions unmounted (e.g. when reorganizing the structure of my partitions/disks etc.) How about it? > > > By the way: How about putting the boot + fixit stuff onto a cdrom > > That's what CD #2 of every Walnut Creek CDROM product is. Sounds good... Does it contain rsh/rlogin + tar?? Anyway - supporting FreeBSD by buying the CDROMs is a great idea - no doubt... But shouldn't be there a way of installing FreeBSD with CDROMs instead of floppies - I mean with a *small* iso image of some megabytes length to do the rest over the network (think of STABLE...). > > - Jordan > regards Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message