From: Brian Mcbee (mcbeeb@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU)
Date: 02/22/92


From: mcbeeb@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Brian Mcbee)
Subject: A couple of problems...
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1992 05:40:24 GMT

I have been hacking on linux now for a couple of weeks,
with almost uniformly good results. I have poe-IGL,
shoelace, mtools, and most other patches etc installed.
I do have two problems though:

1- I am unable to use 720k disks in my 1.44 meg 3.5 inch
drive. I have tried all the likely looking minor
device numbers. Anyone else get this to work?

2- How do people backup their systems? Trying to create
a large tar file either on floppies or to a disk file
almost inevitably locks up my system. A known
problem? Maybe fixed in 0.13? :-)

-- 
Brian McBee   mcbeeb@jacobs.cs.orst.edu  or  brianop@opac.UUCP
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."                    Thomas Jefferson