Re: additional features in bsd.rd

[Pete Vickers]

On 22. nov. 2005, at 12.42, Stuart Henderson wrote:

--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 -'..

unless I read ftp(1) incorrectly, then it supports retrieve only,  
with no ability to send - which was my main desire.


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).


ability to get info / files / data _off_ the machine really. But I  
suspect you may be correct that 16k is too 'expensive'.


/Pete