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Date:      Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:51:18 -0500
From:      James Tanis <jtanis@pycoder.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: moving disks between archs
Message-ID:  <65dcde740602100951k17bf8330o15e1b78bd2ee55be@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060209203330.GA11506@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <43EA72B9.5070307@gmail.com> <20060209203330.GA11506@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Tar will work, but not a drive formatted on an i386 with a tar file on
it. If its a sparc, why not just plug it into the network temporarily?
Ive never seen a sparc without an integrated ethernet card.

On 2/9/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:37:45PM +0100, Paolino wrote:
> > I'm using a disk to bring data to an network-isolated machine  running
> > sparc. What filesystem can I use to get some compatibility?
> >
> > Having placed an UFS from an i386, makes it unreadable on the sparc, IR=
C
> > guys tought me it's an endiannes problem.
> >
> > Is tar going to work ?
>
> tar will work, so you can always write the tar file to the raw disk
> (i.e. use no filesystem).
>
> Kris
>
>
>


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