[CentOS] How to add System V Filesystem to Centos?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Feb 7 02:18:51 UTC 2006


Probably a better idea to use IRC for this - as it is real time and it
won't be 50 emails waiting for everyone on the list.

Craig

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 19:10 -0700, Mace Eliason wrote:
> Sorry Steve your right
> 
> I did a quick test of what you suggested on my laptop because my server 
> is down stairs. My laptop is running Ubuntu and it didn't work.  I just 
> went down and tried it on Centos and it worked :) :)   I was able to 
> copy the content of the first disk to the hard drive.  So I will try the 
> cat < /dev/fd0 >> tempfile.tar on all the discs to see if that works.
> 
> You guys are life savers.
> 
> I will let you know what happens
> 
> 
> Steve Bergman wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:55 -0700, Mace Eliason wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>The above command won't work because I can't mount the floppy drive.  I 
> >>just get you must specify the filesystem type.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >No, there is no filesystem involved.  This is raw io from the floppy.
> >Think of the floppy drive itself as a 1.44MB file called /dev/floppy.
> >
> >There *was* a dos filesystem on the diskettes.  There is not one
> >anymore.
> >
> >There is one tar archive spread across 7 pieces of raw media which just
> >contain a stream of 1.44 million bytes each.
> >
> >-Steve
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