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From: Jacob Ritorto <jritorto@tsoft.net>
To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr
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Subject: Re: migrating to FreeBSD
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Yes, completely; in fact I made it 'dangerously dedicated' in my BSD zeal.
I have to get the tapes to work somehow.  The other data that was less
voluminous but more frequently accessed was handled via the 'tar to dos
partition' strategy you mention.  

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Have-you erased your Linux disk ? if not, you can mount an ext2fs
> partition in the FreeBSD tree (man mount_ext2fs(8) - mount a ext2fs file
> system)
> You can also tar to a file which could be on an M$-FAT partition.
> 
> 	TfH
> 
> PS : welcome to FreeBSD
> 
> > 
> > Hello.  I've read and been impressed by your FreeBSD propaganda and
> have
> > converted to your platform from Slackware Linux.
> > 	During the migration, I backed up all my serious data to QIC-80
> > tapes using tar.  Now when I try to retrieve the data, the ft filter
> > says that I've inserted the wrong volume and won't accept the
> > volume name of the Linux-generated tape.  How do I get around this? 
> The
> > data was a backup of an old operating system for my pdp11 and I can't
> > replace it, so it's critical.
> > 
> > thanks in advance
> > 
> > Jacob Ritorto
> > 
> > 
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