Date: 21 Apr 2002 12:49:35 -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: <87u1q4rfw0.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <3CC26E9E.1F131018@earthlink.net> References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> <877kn1ptad.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <3CC26E9E.1F131018@earthlink.net>
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Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> writes:
| Well, Ken. Things did not go entirely as hoped...
Uh-oh.
| 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.
How large did the tarball turn out to be? If it's over 1.4MiB, it's not going
to work.
| 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)
Okay. That would be normal, except I'm concerned that the tarball was larger
than the floppy would handle.
| # ls -FL /usr/tmp
| total 10824
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11067771 Apr 21 02:01 s_apache.tar.gz
Yep.
| 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?
I do!
# cd /tmp
# split -b 1474560 s_apache.tar.gz s_apache.tar.gz.
That will create a bunch of files called
s_apache.tar.gz.aa
s_apache.tar.gz.ab
and so on. Write each of those individually, shove them over to the MSDOS
system (apache.01, apache.02, etc.), and concatenate them there (into
APACHE.TGZ), and you're set.
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