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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!t-piersh
- From: t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken)
- Subject: Re: transfering mtools from DOS partition to LINUX fs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep03.173830.20648@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Sep 92 17:38:30 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA 98052
- References: <182mfdINN18v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <182mfdINN18v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- >
- >
- >Does rawrite work for this??????
- >
- >I ran it and gave it mtools.n.tar.Z as the file to copy to my
- >floppy drive....
- >
- >but then in Linux when i tried to mount /dev/fd1 I get an error
- >message like no magic match or something.
- >
- >What is the simplest way to do this?
- >
- >thanx inadvance
- >
- >--
- >MaThiEu a. LeWis "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For
- >Thieves Like Us us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
- >mal11@po.cwru.edu side left or right/To love or to hate."
- > -A Strange Kind of Love
-
- What you can do is this.
-
- ln /dev/fd1 /dev/fd1.Z
- Which will create a device suitable for use with zcat...
- then
-
- zcat /dev/fd1.Z | tar -xvf -
- will uncompress the floppy and feed it through tar, extracting as it goes.
-
- Piers.
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- Disclaimer: These views are my own and not necessarily
- those of the company for which I work.
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