From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 0:47:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vbcomm.net (climax.vbcomm.net [208.178.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F4637B41D for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:47:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Real-Return-Path: filipak@earthlink.net Received: from earthlink.net ([208.178.123.64]) by mail.vbcomm.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA07397; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:38:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3CC26E9E.1F131018@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:47:42 -0400 From: Mark Filipak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken McGlothlen Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mark asks: Easy way to copy CD-ROM > MS-floppy? References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> <877kn1ptad.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Well, Ken. Things did not go entirely as hoped... Ken McGlothlen wrote: > -snip- > If it were me, I'd back up the entire /etc directory. ... I tried to use this technique to back up /usr/local/s_apache since this is the directory that contains almost all of the GallantWEB goodies. # tar cvfz /tmp/s_apache.tar.gz /usr/local/s_apache went as expected. 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) Hmm.... # ls -FL /usr/tmp total 10824 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11067771 Apr 21 02:01 s_apache.tar.gz Ooops. Looks like I can't put 11 MB of data on a 1.44 MB floppy! 8^) Do you have any way for me to chop up s_apache.tar.gz into floppy-sized pieces that I will be able to reassemble in Win98SE? (Note: binary concatination in DOS: copy /b s_apache.tar.gz.1+s_apache.tar.gz.2+... s_apache.tar.gz is an option, provided of course that the resulting floppies have msdos filesystems.) Thanks and peace. -- Mark -- See my resume: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/resume/ See my music trade pages: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/music/ Last updated: 14 April 2002 Q: Is UNIX the spawn of Satan? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message