> > 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...

i've got those, too.  they just speed up the process...they don't
solve the problems.  :)

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