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From: Andrew Ivanov <ivanov@mics.msu.su>
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Peter Woods wrote:
> I think that your problem lies in that when you boot
> off floppy your / directory is on the floppy.  For
> example, if you are trying to restore /etc, you want
> to restore to /mnt/etc, not the current /etc which is
> on your floppy.
Yes, I did 'cd /mnt', and restore will restore data in
current directory, that is /mnt (hard disk), but create
temp files it will in / (floppy) :-(
May be 'chroot /mnt' helps, but it needs some files in /mnt
(sbin/init, some dev, some etc); Is there any way to restore
data to empty filesystem?

Thanks in advance,
 Andrew.