Sweet thanks....now to tackle this frigging PCCard NIC
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 02:14 PM
To: Gardiner, Stewart
Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Spanning disks
>This may sound like a stupid question, but I was wondering if there was any
>way to span disk's with tar, I want to span the latest kernel onto floppys
>so I can install it on my laptop...
Sure, just use the -M or --multi-volume option on tar. However I
personally prefer to do this:
split -b 1420k linux-2.3.51.tar.gz
for i in xa?
do
echo -n $i
read a
mcopy $i a:
done
and then at the other end:
for i in xa{a,b,c,d,e,f...}
do
echo -n $i 1>&2
read a
mtype a:$i
done | tar zxvf -
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