From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 4 04:32:40 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA22823 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 04:32:40 -0800 Received: from gaudi.diatel.upm.es (gaudi.diatel.upm.es [138.100.49.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA22817 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 04:32:36 -0800 Received: by gaudi.diatel.upm.es (4.1/SMI-4.1) Wed, 4 Jan 95 13:28:22 +0100 X400-Received: by mta diatel.upm in /PRMD=/ADMD=/C=/; Relayed; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:28:20 UTC+0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/; Relayed; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:28:20 UTC+0100 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:28:20 UTC+0100 X400-Originator: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-Content-Type: P2-1984 (2) X400-Mts-Identifier: [/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/;950104132820] Content-Identifier: 553 Conversion: Prohibited From: Javier Martin Rueda To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <553*/S=jmrueda/OU=diatel/O=upm/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS> Subject: Re: I ftped, Now what? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Ean X.400 to MIME gateway) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I ftped everything under the 2.0-FreeBSD directory. I currently run > SCO (sorry :) but would like to convert to FreeBSD. I have a 2GB SCSII DAT > drive. I've read everything I could get my hands on. But I'm still not > sure what to do next. I know I need to create the floppies, but what files/ > directories do I move to the tape. And, wht do I use, tar or cpio? I suggest you use tar and begin dumping from the 2.0-RELEASE directory, so that the tape looks like: bindist/xxxxxx