On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:29 -0700, Mace Eliason wrote:
But will cpio split the file it is to large to fit on a floppy? What about the files I have on the disc right now. I was using dos formated floppies and then ran tar to do the copy. Is it possible that I can read them using some of the suggested way?
Sorry, I missed one of your posts where you explained what command line you used.
To extract, you might try:
tar xvMf /dev/floppy
or tar xvMf /dev/fdxxx
where fdxxx is any one of the devices you see when you do a ls dev/fd*
I feel your pain. It's always frustrating when the machine is 100 miles away from your office.
Its also possible that:
cat < /dev/floppy >> tempfile.tar
for each of the diskettes in order to concatenate their contents together, and then when you've done them all:
tar xvf tempfile.tar
*might* just work.
-Steve