Re: access to rsh when using bsd.rd

#1 (**permalink**) 02-22-2008, 01:29 PM

>Subject: access to rsh when using bsd.rd
>Hi,
>
>I've burned my own installation CD (yes, I've ordered one too, but I can't
>wait
>for it to get here). I made a bootable CD in El-Torito format and used
>"cdrom39.fs" as the El-Torito boot image.
>
>This all works fine, and I have installed a system.
>
>After I was done doing the install, I realized I didn't like my disk
>partitioning
>at all and decided I would try to save my filesystems across the net to a
>linux
>system, re-partition, and restore then again across the net.
>
>Normally, I would use the following to save the filesystems:
>
> tar cXf - /|rsh -l urban linux 'cat > bsd-root.tar'
>
>and then afterwards to the reverse. However, there seems to be no ssh or
>rsh
>in the ramdisk filesystem. I presume I cannot simply copy /usr/bin/rsh to
>a
>floppy, because it is dependent on, among other things, a 3.9MB large
>libc.so.
>
>Have I missed something obvious here? Is there another way? It seems like
>rdump using rmt might work, but reading the rmt manpage on linux one does
>not get the impression that it was meant to be used for regular file
>access.
>Is there a document somewhere describing this procedure?
>Will this be superfluous when the CD I ordered arrives?
>thanks,
>Robert Urban
>P.S. of course I could simply re-install, but I'm trying to get to know
>OpenBSD
>again...

If you have a protected network you trust then use FTP, ftp is available on
the ramdisk boot image.

-sean

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