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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:15:41 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001202210390.57439-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
In-Reply-To: <16925.948399437@zippy.cdrom.com>

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Hi again,

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> I doubt it. :-)

nice rhyme :-)

When I cloned a new machine, I usually booted with the floppies, set up
DOS partitions and disk label and then pulled everyting over by tar and
rsh, thereby overwriting fstab etc. with prepared files. Worked pretty
fast...

What would you suggest how to do it?

>
> - Jordan
>
regards
-Jan



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