On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:40:02 -0500
> From: Gan Uesli Starling <alias@starling.us>
> To: Philip Christian <philipchristian2003@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Cloning an i386 system ?
>
> Philip Christian writes:
>
> > I am just building a NetBSD system now.
> >
> > I have a second PC which is completely identical,
> > except that it has a bigger hard drive.
> >
> > Can I just take this drive, partition and format it,
> > attach it as a slave on the first system, mount it I
> > guess, and then just drag all the files over in
> > Konquerer?
> >
> > Or would there be a better way to do it ?
>
> Phillip,
>
> They way you thought would have worked on an old
> Amiga 2000 running AmigaOS (I used to back up that
> way all the time in the 80's). But it would not, I
> don't think, work on any other OS at all.
>
> Here is a how-to for the way I do it on NetBSD.
>
> I don't know if it is the 'best way'. But it is a
> good way and has worked twice for me.
>
> http://starling.us/gus_netbsd/gus_netbsd_cpio_backup.html
>
> Know that I too am something of a Newbie. I have a number
> of how-tos for other newbies at the parent URL for the
> above how-to. It is at...
>
> http://starling.us/gus_netbsd
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Gan
>
> PS.....an addenda.....
>
> If I may, a word or two. Coming from AmigaOS to Win98 to
> WinNT to Win2K to NetBSD I too jumped immediately on the KDE
> bandwagon...first with KDE 1 then 2 then 3. But I find that
> I only ever needed or used about 2% of KDE.
>
> I remember now that what I liked best about AmigaOS was it's
> being clean and small...having only what I wanted. And what I
> hate most about Windows was that it comes loaded down with
> an army of useless, space-wasting applications that I do not
> even know what some of them do.
>
> If you set your paths in /home/your-user-name/.cshrc for each
> of your executables (email me later if you have trouble) then
> you can save loads and loads of otherwise wasted HD space by
> installing some other window manager rather than KDE.
>
> XFree86 comes standard with a rather plain wm, so you don't
> even have to install one at all.
>
> Then you just type the name of the thing you want to run in a
> terminal window and up it comes: mozilla, the editor of your
> choice, etc., etc.
>
> All those other window managers boot up way faster than KDE.
> I kept to KDE because the xterm windows had scrollbars. Then
> someone pointed out that the -sb option for xterm works with
> any wm, that KDE just does it by default, is all. Had I bothered
> to read 'man xterm' or 'info xterm' I would have known this
> long before.
>
> I have an OLD laptop which runs plenty fast on a small, clean
> window manager but is really quite the sloth in KDE.
>
> The real NetBSD gurus have previously recommended as much to
> me, yet I ignored them. Turns out that they were right.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Gan
>
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