Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>  wrote:
 > i was *planning* on dumping my netbsd partitions to an nfs volume,
 > booting from install floppies, arranging the disk (fdisk, disklabel,
 > newfs), copying enough of the install media to boot and get a single
 > user shell (and configure the network), and then restoring the dumps
 > from the nfs volume.  for the dos partition, i was hoping tar would
 > suffice.  i was cheap and in a hurry, so i got *only* a drive...no
 > free utilities for moving stuff...

I have a couple of those laptop to regular IDE adapters so I can plug
laptop disks into some other i386 chassis running NetBSD.  Then I can
just dump|restore and installboot...