From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 20 13:15:57 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 A6227153FF for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:15:43 -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 WAA27362 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:15:41 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 59942 invoked by uid 145); 20 Jan 2000 21:15:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jan 2000 21:15:41 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:15:41 +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: <16925.948399437@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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message