From: kxb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck) Subject: Re: More questions about rawrite Date: 1 Jun 1992 18:12:10 -0500
mjm@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike McBain) writes:
>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.
Do: "tar cvf diskfile.tar file.tar.Z"
Then rawrite the file to the disk. Now since the file is in tar format
jut take it to the destination machine and type:
"tar xvf /dev/at0"
This is of course assuming you have a 5.25" HD drive.
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