According to Jase: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi all,
>
> I've recently downloaded a tar.gz file into my windoze standalone
> computer and would like to transfer it over to my Linux standalone
> computer (RH5). How can I go about doing this if Linux formats a floppy
> differently than dos? Thanks!
>
> Jase
>
You can use dos floppys on a linux system (providing you have msdos support
in your kernel or as a module).
Just copy the file on the windows system to floppy, remember its full name,
for example we will call it slackware.tar.gz
copy c:\win\<name> a: (or something like that)
The name will have to meet dos short name requirements, put the floppy in
the linux machine. You can see whats on the floppy with 'mdir', to copy the
file you must first mount the drive.
'mount /dev/fd0 -tmsdos /mnt'
Now
cp /mnt/filename /usr/local/src/slackware.tar.gz
That will copy the short (dos) filename to /usr/local/src and convert it
back to its origanal linux long name.
unmount the floppy drive before extracting the floppy.
There are other ways, but i would try that first.
If you dont have msdos another way is;
copy the file from windows to the floppy.
place the floppy in the linux machine.
then do;
'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/mnt/slackware.tar.gz'
That will copy the whole floppy to a file called slackware.tar.gz, so it
speaks for itself to only have one file on the floppy.
You should then be able to use tar to unpack the archive. NOTE, i have not
tryed to unpack the file after using dd that way, but i see no reason why it
should not work.
Hope this helps.
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Regards Richard.
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