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...