From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Writing Linux disks on Sun Date: 9 Oct 1992 14:57:48 GMT
In article <ucosmo.718399359@mcl>, ucosmo@mcl.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) writes:
| I was just curious if someone had a solution to this problem. It seems that
| you can only write DOS disks on a Sun Sparc if you are root and can mount a
| DOS floppy. Does someone have an alternate solution? Linux can't read a
| disk tarred on a Sun, can it?
a) yes it can, or at least cpio with -c
b) use mtools, no privs needed to r/w DOS format disks
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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