From: stevew@netcom.com (Steven Wilson) Subject: Re: mtools on root image Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1992 23:59:07 GMT
In article <1992Mar14.235708.27170@muddcs.claremont.edu>, jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
> How is this less tedious than having to copy files to a spare DOS
> floppy, and then using the 'bare-bones' mtools that you proposed to
> read them? That just adds another, unnecessary step... All one
> really needs to do is this:
Ok.. I'm speaking from experience here...having not had a working
mtools until AFTER I had installed just about all of the currently
ported linux packages.
My boot path was as follows: I moved all of the existing files
over to a local internet host, then used a DOS based comm package
to move them over to my home PC over the phone line. So here
I sit with ALL of linux in a DOS directory and 1 at a time
rawriting them onto a floppy, rebooting LINUX, taring the package
into linux, rebooting DOS, rawriting the next package, rebooting
LINUX, etc.
Once I got mtools working(which took more than one attempt
due to local stupidity on my part) it was merely a matter
reading all of the files from my C DOS drive onto LINUX.
No more rebooting(YEEEEAAAAH!)
I spent something like 10 hours moving packages over the hard
way BEFORE I got mtools up and running. That could have been
reduced by half if I'd had mtools up and running earlier.
Steve Wilson