amaya <amaya@idiom.com> writes:

>	I just installed a NetBSD and a bunch of packages onto my
>Decstation. Every thing went well until I got lazy and tried to clone the
>installed system onto a newer, quieter drive rather than doing a fresh
>install.
>	I copied the / and /usr file systems from the old drive to the new
>one using pax. The newly cloned system had a few quirks until I remade the
>device files, but after that every thing seemed fine on the cloned system
>except that su always fails (just says sorry).  It works fine on the old

did you use pax -rw -pe?  then all should be well...

--mkb