From: mjm@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike McBain) Subject: More questions about rawrite Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 04:12:37 GMT
Further to my earlier question about problems mounting a rawritten disk:
How is the hopeful system builder supposed to transfer files to a
hard disk for uncompression and untar-ing? Don't tell me to use
mtools, because that's the program I'm trying to transfer.
I have a 60K compressed tarfile which I have downloaded from the archive.
I then used rawrite to write it to a 1.2 MB floppy. When mounted
I got the error message about a wrong magic number and error code 16.
Am I doing something just incredibly stupid? Should I perhaps not be
using rawrite from DOS to write this rather small file out to disk?
Should I be massaging the disk into a linux filesystem, perhaps, and
then somehow write the file to it? If I create a blank file system on
the floppy, I can mount it, but that doesn't help me to put the file
there in the first place.
This enquiring mind would like to know 8-)
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