ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (10/28/88)
We just installed MINIX on one of our 20 MB hard disks, and copied the entire disk to a remote machine by typing: from xyz >/dev/hd0 on the remote machine, and to xyz </dev/hd0 on the local machine (whose disk we wanted to transfer). This worked fine and created a whole new disk image in 16 minutes. This is a mean transfer rate of 21K bytes/sec, disk to disk, competing with other Ethernet traffic. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)