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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