--On 22 November 2005 12:01 +0100, Pete Vickers wrote:
1. Get a dmesg output from CD-ROM booted bsd.rd to my other machine
for emailing etc.
# dmesg | nc 10.20.30.40 1234
3. Restore a 'disk image' from above...
# nc -l 1234 | dd of=/dev/rwd0c
You can already do those things with 'ftp -o -'..
2. Get information off a machine, either for backup purposes or data
recovery etc.
# dd if=/dev/rwd0c | nc 10.20.30.40 1234
I'm not sure the ability to dd a raw image directly is worth the extra
bytes (if you look at cvs log, you'll see that quite small savings are
considered important - 16k is huge in comparison to some of these).
