From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 29 12:30:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from esperi.demon.co.uk (esperi.demon.co.uk [194.222.138.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C99C615499 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kieran@esperi.demon.co.uk) Received: from cuchulainn.tirnanog (4000@cuchulainn.tirnanog [192.168.1.68]) by esperi.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA14383; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:28:33 +0100 Received: from localhost (kieran@localhost) by cuchulainn.tirnanog (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA01503; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:28:34 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:28:34 +0100 (BST) From: Kieran X-Sender: kieran@cuchulainn.tirnanog To: ML Duke Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oh, Heck In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, ML Duke wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:29:20 -0600 (MDT) > From: ML Duke > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: Oh, Heck > > I've got some files tar'd up as in: > > >tar cvpf /dev/rfd0 [directory] > > Anyone have a clue as to how to get them back off and on to the hard > drive, again?? > > ML Duke Can you mount the floppy, and get the size of the file? Then you could use dd to copy the raw file. On the other hand, if you can find that out, you would probably just untar the file :) Just a thought, if you tar xpv /dev/rfd0, what happens? When I heard about the accident last week, I wondered about this. The f switch tells tar to use a file rather than a device, so this might work. Speaking of what happened last week, how did you get the floppy out of the drive in the end? Regards Kieran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message