From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: Tarring from floppy? Date: 25 Sep 1992 23:35:54 GMT
In article <Bv54GB.LLx@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:
|> I just installed linux yesterday. Right now I am trying to tar some things from
|> floppy which were previously held on my dos HD. What I did was tar -xfv /dev/fd0, tar -tfv /dev/fd and etc. Did not work though. The files were held on a
|> DOS hard drive and I rawrote them to floppies, expecting to untarr them.
|> If anyone could give me a command I can use Id really apreciate.
First use the latest kernel, like the one on my bootable root disks. If your
dos HD is on the same machine, do
mount -t msdos /dev/dosHD /mnt
cp /mnt/foo/bar .
Otherwise, copy those files onto a DOS floppy disks and mount it with
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
cp /mnt/foo/bar .
H.J.