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 > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > >