Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:18:34 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001201803280.44187-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <6270.948303162@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Why was it removed? > > If there are no good reasons, please could somebody put back rsh onto the > > floppy! Currently I don't see how to do cloning easily without rsh? > > The fixit floppy is very full and its days as a truly useful tool are > sort of numbered. Well - after thinking on this for a while I'd still suggest to eliminate telnet in favor of rsh/rlogin. The reason is that you can really do a *lot* of things with rsh (especially compared to telnet..) I now resolved the problem by mounting the root dir of the other machine by nfs and copying directly from that. Doing this I found - to my great surprise - that FreeBSD's root filesystem neither contains rsh/rlogin nor tar!! I would *strongly* suggest to put rsh/rlogin + tar onto the root filesystem. I allways found these commands to be *extremely* useful in single user mode with all other partitions unmounted (e.g. when reorganizing the structure of my partitions/disks etc.) How about it? > > > By the way: How about putting the boot + fixit stuff onto a cdrom > > That's what CD #2 of every Walnut Creek CDROM product is. Sounds good... Does it contain rsh/rlogin + tar?? Anyway - supporting FreeBSD by buying the CDROMs is a great idea - no doubt... But shouldn't be there a way of installing FreeBSD with CDROMs instead of floppies - I mean with a *small* iso image of some megabytes length to do the rest over the network (think of STABLE...). > > - Jordan > regards Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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