Retro Linux box: No SSH, need telnet solution for dumping a disk image over the network.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:29:17PM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> At a recent Convention I acquired an IBM P70 (1989) luggable.
> I'm trying to dump the contents of the harddrive across the network.
>
> The installed linux on the dosen't have ssh.
> So is there any way to preform the below with telnet?
>
>   dd if=/dev/eda | ssh [remote] 'cat>  image.img' # /dev/eda is correct of this machine
>
>   tar cf - / | ssh [remote] 'cat>  image.tar'
>
> What do I need to setup on the [remote] side to accept the incoming data?

Does it have rlogin/rsh?

I don't think telnet is clean enough to tunnel data.

Of course a machine from 89 has no PCI, so no USB or firewire.
Probably no scsi or ide.

How about NFS mount?  It must support that.  Would be much faster than
ssh too on such an old CPU.

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Len Sorensen
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