On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:44:27PM +0800, Mark Lo wrote:
>
> I did backup some of the major programs using tar to floppy
> disk.
[...]
How exactly did you use tar to do this? Did you just tar the files up
and copied the resulting file to floppy or did you use tar directly
(i.e. 'tar czf /dev/fd0 ...' or 'tar cf /dev/fd0 ...')?
If the latter, you need to run the corresponding command, i.e.
'tar xzf /dev/fd0' or 'tar xf /dev/fd0' (depending on whether you used
"z" in the creation or not).
without mounting the floppy at all. If you use tar directly on a floppy,
no filesystem is created, AFAIR - the data just gets dumped to the
medium like it would with a tape.
If you copied a file to the floppy: What filesystem was on that floppy?
ext2 or DOS? If DOS: Have you tried mdir/mcopy?
HTH,
Thomas
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