From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) Subject: Re: Stupid SLS question (first time user) Date: 14 Oct 1992 11:30:42 GMT
In article <16314@borg.cs.unc.edu> cullip@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Timothy Cullip) writes:
>I want to get them onto floppies to carry home and
>load onto my PC. Is everything other than a1 and a2 supposed to be in
>DOS format (i.e. should I use mtools to put them on the floppies):
[text on a copy procedure deleted]
>Is this going to work for me, or am I missing the big picture?
I don't believe this will work. From everything I know, it will *not* work
but seeing as I haven't tried it myself I can't say for sure.
Here's what I do:
1. Format the (four, in your case) floppies with the following:
% fdformat -d /dev/rfd0
Press return to start formatting floppy.
.............................................................................
2. Get the boot and root files to floppy:
% ls
a1 a2 a3/ a4/
(insert a floppy)
% dd if=a1 of=/dev/fd0
% eject
(insert another floppy)
% dd if=a2 of=/dev/fd0
% !ej
3. Get several files in a3 & a4 directories to floppy on DOS FS (must either
be root to use mount, or have a sysadmin write a wrapper for mount):
(insert another floppy)
% su
Password:
# mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0 /pcfs
# cd a3
# cp * /pcfs
# umount /pcfs
# !ej
(insert another floppy)
# !mou
# cd ../a4
# !cp
# !umou
# !ej
Bear in mind that some have found that it takes a long time to write these
diskettes. For me, on a SS1+, it takes ~10 minutes to write an almost-full
diskette.
An alternative would be to use mtools. I have not, but some say it works
quite well.
> Tim Cullip
> cullip@cs.unc.edu
--Brian
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Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
talley@acadia.kodak.com