Hey gang,
Is there a way to clone my working NeXT Installation to another drive?
Are you going to connect the new drive to the same machine?
You could try to use the dd command to transfer the data.
The BuildDisk app will help you do this very easily. Just connect the drive, the OS will detect it, prompt you to initialize it then you can clone the boot drive contents to it.
On an Intel machine, I do the following:
ROOT[1]# fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setAvailableToNeXT -useAllSectors
ROOT[2]# /usr/etc/disk -h "host" -l "Disk" -u -i /dev/rsd0h
ROOT[3]# mount /dev/sd0a /Disk
ROOT[4]# gnutar -c --ignore-failed-read -l --exclude /private/vm/swapfile.front --exclude /Disk/ -f - / | ( cd /Disk/; gnutar xsvpf - )
This should work OK for a NeXT machine as well. Of course, you'll need a working gnutar.