On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, David Windsor wrote> 
> I'm trying to backup my harddisk to floppy =8-) yes it sounds painfull to 
> me too =8-) but /dev/rfd0a and /dev/fd0a will not accept HD disks and I 
> can find nothing in my man pages to help.  Anyone out there know how this 
> is done?
> Thanks.

David,
I assume you want to back up your entire NetBSD drive. If that is the 
case you can do it to tape or hardisk from the Amiga side without booting 
into NetBSD by using 'image' mode in AmiBack and possibly some other 
backup program like Abackup.  This is an all or nothing backup procedure 
that allows backing up the drive 'verbatim' no matter what is on the 
drive or how it was formatted. It doesn't allow access to individual 
files or directories. Restore is again an all or nothing procedure and 
demands that NOTHING has changed with regard to the drives partitioning 
information. It's wise to save out the RDB information from the drive 
using AmiBack or AmiBack-Tools to a safe place so you can reformat the 
drive to its original specs in case of an emergency. Now if this doesn't
address your real needs please ignore it, but it is one way out until a 
better method comes up.
Ola