Sorry, some how I hit ctrl-x instead of ctrl-c!


> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:47:58 -0500 (EST)
> From: "webmaster@datazap.net" <webmaster@datazap.net>
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Cloning an i386 system ?
>
> 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
> >
> >  --
> > Mistera Sturno - Rarest Extinct Bird
> >
> > <(+)__        Gan Uesli Starling
> >  ((__/)=-    Kalamazoo, MI, USA
> >   `||`
> >    ++        http://starling.us
> >
>