Subject: Re: [somewhat OT] Creating VMS disk images
To: Brian Wheeler <bdwheele@wombat.educ.indiana.edu>
From: Paul Thompson <thompson@mail.athenet.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/19/2001 19:31:00
something along the lines of
dd if=/dev/ra0c bs=1k | rsh otherhost 'cat > ra0c.img'
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> We're getting ready to retire our VAX 4000/200 (with an odd "VaxStation 4"
> nameplate) and I'd like to make disk images of the RA81s and RA82s in the
> system and burn them to CD. Could I make a NetBSD boot tape, boot it,
> configure the network, then ftp the disk images off (via something like
> "get <whatever_device_file_name> dua0.img")?
>