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- From: jarmolow@samsung.com (Tom Jarmolowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Using the floppy dirve on 7xx machine
- Message-ID: <34619@samsung.samsung.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:35:30 GMT
- Sender: news@samsung.COM
- Reply-To: jarmolow@samsung.com
- Organization: Samsung Software America
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- I'm looking for information on how to use the floppy drive on a 720.
- What I'm trying to do is write two tar files onto a set of floppies.
- The first tar file is an installation script that the user untar's. The
- second tar file is quite large (it spans several floppies) and is
- untar'ed by the install script.
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- When using tape, the install script is the 1st tar file on the tape.
- The install script does something like this:
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- mt -t $REWIND_TAPE_DEVICE rewind
- mt -t $NOREWIND_TAPE_DEVICE fsf 1
- tar xvf $NOREWIND_TAPE_DEVICE
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- My questions are:
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- (1) What special files should I be using to access the floppy.
- The only one I'm aware of is /dev/dsk/floppy: block special (7/2101248)
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- (2) How can I put multiple files onto a floppy ?
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- (3) If I need to build a file system on a floppy what do I need to do to
- format it ?
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- (4) *** Where can I find more information on this *****
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-
- Thanks in advance
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