Date: 20 Apr 2002 21:30:50 -0700 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mark asks: Easy way to copy CD-ROM > MS-floppy? Message-ID: <877kn1ptad.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net>
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Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> writes:
| Q2: Are there any other configuration files that I should make copies of
| in preparation for the new system? (Note: I want the new system to have
| the same capabilities as the old system.)
Uh . . . depends on what capabilities you're talking about. Last I understood,
you hadn't gotten the GallantWEB system working the way you wanted.
If it were me, I'd back up the entire /etc directory. At the very least,
rc.conf, resolv.conf, exports, passwd, hosts, fstab, group, hosts.allow,
inetd.conf, master.passwd, ntp.conf, syslog.conf, and the kernel file in
/sys/i386/conf. Also, if you have an Apache installation, httpd.conf in the
apache directory (typically /usr/local/etc/apache). I'd also back up any user
data I wanted to keep. I'd also get a list of what ports I had installed that
I'd consider critical.
| Important Facts
| ===============
| * The existing installation has *no* man pages.
| * The existing installation has *no* MS-DOS clone commands (e.g., "mcd",
| "mcopy", etc.)
| * I could not figure out if the system has what it takes to mount an
| MS-DOS file system -- I don't know where things are.
| * The resulting floppy must be readable by Win98SE.
Well, okay. There's still a way you can do this.
| The backup media is a 1.44MB floppy formatted with MS-DOS.
|
| After about an hour of trying to access disc 2 of the CD set (i.e., the
| live file system), I finally figured out
|
| mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/??? /cdrom
|
| ??? ==> I don't remember what the device name is in GallantWEB, but it is
| *not* cd0a. Luckily, I can find it again with this command:
|
| more /etc/fstab
|
| (which *only* took me about 1/2 hour to discover).
Sorry about that.
Try
# mkdir /floppy
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
Now, of course, you have no MSDOS commands, so what you might want to do is
make a tarball with the files:
# tar cvfz /tmp/saveme.tar.gz /etc/fstab ...
where you replace "..." with all the files you want to save.
Now comes the tricky part. You've got to write it onto the floppy.
# dd if=/tmp/saveme.tar.gz of=/dev/fd0
This writes the raw bitstream onto the floppy.
On the Windows box, you can read this with RAWREAD, a third-party program.
Here's one place you can get it (courtesy Google):
http://samba.anu.edu.au/eyal/misc.html
Anyway, you use RAWREAD to read it, and save it to SAVEME.TGZ, which if you
really wanted, you could use WinZip to decompress.
Got all that?
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