On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:37:15PM -0500, Tom Uban wrote:
> I have a pair of IDE hard drives and I want to do a raw copy
> from one to the other, so I thought that I might just run the
> 3.0 install CD shell and dd from rwd0a to rwd1a. I know that
> back in the dark ages, this was possible, but apparently in
> these modern times things have changed. When I try to do this
> I receive a read only error on the /dev/rwd1a device.
> 
> When the PC boots, the wdX information goes by to quickly to
> read and the dmesg command is not present on the install CD
> image.
> 
> Is what I want to do possible (anymore)?

You should be able to copy between /dev/rwd0d and /dev/rwd1d - d is the
"whole disk" partition on netBSD/i386.

	-is