From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 6:23:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE7837B405 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b215.otenet.gr [212.205.244.223]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3LDNL5q026573; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:23:22 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3LDNF7A010565; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:23:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3LD70rR010283; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:07:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:07:00 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Filipak Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mark asks: Easy way to copy CD-ROM > MS-floppy? Message-ID: <20020421130700.GD8347@hades.hell.gr> References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> <877kn1ptad.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CC26E9E.1F131018@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CC26E9E.1F131018@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-04-21 03:47, Mark Filipak wrote: > # tar cvfz /tmp/s_apache.tar.gz /usr/local/s_apache > > Then, after I umounted the msdos to avoid a 'busy' error message, > this is what happened: > > # dd if=/tmp/s_apache.tar.gz of=/dev/fd0 > dd: /dev/fd0: end of device > 2881+0 records in > 2880+0 records out > 1474560 bytes transferred in 192.223091 secs (7671 bytes/sec) Too large file to fit in one floppy. You should use split(1) to break the thing in smaller floppy-sized chunks and copy those over to an equal number of floppies. Quick guide of split, since you don't have manpages for GallantWEB: # split -b 1400k s_apache.tar.gz This will create files xaa, xab, xac, ..., which when concatenated in alphabetical order will produce the original file: C:\apache> copy /b xaa+xab+xac+xad apache.tgz Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message