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- Subject: Re: Clue?
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- From: system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead)
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 15:51:50 PDT
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- David Reeve Sward <dsa3+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- > Psst! Buddy, can you spare a clue?
- >
- > A couple Linux-newbie(tm) questions:
- >
- > 1) Is there any Token Ring support? I've got a 16Mb card here and it
- > would sweet to ftp right to Linux instead of to DOS -> rawrite -> Linux
- > -> tar.
- >
- > 2) Just how do you move stuff from DOS to Linux via rawrite -> tar? I
- > grabbed tcsh.tar.Z from tsx, uncompressed it in DOS, rawrote it to a
- > floppy, fired up Linux (thanks BootLinux & Boot.Sys!) and ran
- >
- > tar -tvf /dev/fd0H1440
- > ^^^
- Never used tar before either I see, Try tar vxf /dev/fd0h1440
-
- > It spat out the verbose file listing as (I assumed) it put the files on
- > the HD. But! There were no additional files on the HD. df reported no
- > used/free changes. What am I doing wrong here?
- It did exactly what you told it to.
-
- > 3) Is there a Common Lisp implementation for Linux?
- Don't know sorry.
-
- > 4) mtools. Where can I find docs for mtools? (DOS is on C, Linux is on
- > D with 3 partitions - 18M /, 63M /usr & 10M swap).
- >
- > 5) Anything else a Linux-newbie(tm) should know that's not in the FAQ/whatnot
- >
- > Thanks!
- >
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