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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: Transfering files from floppy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.235824.22217@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Jul24.222916.26001@nevada.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:58:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.222916.26001@nevada.edu> otto@nevada.edu (Frederick J. Haab) writes:
- >
- >Ok, it's me again, that new user. I found all the sites
- >that carry linux stuff, thanks to all who replied. I can
- >use linux's kermit to download the smaller things. At
- >school, I can use a sparc station to copy the bigger things
- >to a floppy disk.
- >
- >How do I transfer this to my hard disk at home?
- >Should I:
- > Use dd, then tar xzf, like the installation disks?
- > Copy to disk in msdos format, then how do I read them?
- >
-
- Use dd (ON A FORMATTED FLOPPY!), then tar xzf. Note that this is only
- possible if the file is small enough to fit on the floppy. I haven't
- had to deal with multi-volume archives yet, meaning I haven't bought enough
- floppies to back up my Linux partitions. :-)
-
- Note that I wrote "ON A FORMATTED FLOPPY". This is a good idea for
- everyone, after the problem I had over the weekend. I formatted a bunch
- of floppy disks a while back and used them for temporary file systems and
- for bootable floppies. I tried making a bootable floppy with patch1 and
- patch2, and it didn't work. I suspected a new bug in the kernel that
- kept Linux from running on my machine, until I check it out under MS-DOS
- (sorry guys, had to because my linux disk was hosed -- but that's a
- different story) and found that the disk was defective. "dd" didn't detect
- a problem when it wrote the bootimage, so I had no idea it was the floppy.
- Formatting a new floppy disk and writing the bootimage to it took care of
- everything. After this incident, I would recommend formatting your target
- floppy immediately before you copy a boot image (or anything, for that matter)
- to it.
-
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu
- * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)
-