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- From: wieck@jwminhh.hanse.de (Jan Wieck)
- Subject: Re: Format of the Floppy disks
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:49:09 GMT
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- jls@corse.inria.fr (Jean-Luc Szpyrka) writes:
- :
- : Hi,
- :
- : I would like to read the source disks using the floppy disk unit
- : of my SparcII, but ....
- : The format of the data doesn't seem to be MSDOS, nor TAR format.
- :
- : Does anybody know, how can I read these disks directly ?
-
- The distribution-format is MINIX filesystem. To read those floppies,
- they are mounted under MINIX.
-
- But there is a readfs command, that can read and extract a whole
- filesystem through it's block-device. So you have to port this
- to Sparc.
-
-
- Until later, Jan
-
-
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