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- From: johnm@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Markus Bjoerndalen)
- Subject: Re: rawrite/rawread
- References: <1993Jan2.181250.12629@camaro.uucp>
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- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:06:18 GMT
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- Laszlo Herczeg (las@camaro.uucp) wrote:
- > Hello everyone, and happy new year.
- > I would like to know the procedure to create a disk image for RAWRITE.
- >
- > I have obtained a tar'd version of MINICOMM (communication program for MINIX),
- > but when I rawrite it to a floppy I get the following error under MINIX 1.5:
- > fd0 is not a valid file system
- >
- > Someone told me the reason this happens is because rawrite can only reproduce
- > an existing disk image, and the tar'd file does not contain that disk image.
- >
- > So my question is: how do I make a disk image of a file which RAWRITE in its
- > turn can handle?
- >
- > Please reply if you know the answer, because I really need this program and you
- > people are so good at answering novice questions.
- > Many thanks in advance!
- > Laszlo
-
- Hm... your reply address barfed up for me (camaro!las looked a bit
- incomplete :)), so I'll just post this.
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- tar files are not filesystems that you can mount. But if you rawrote the
- tar file to a floppy you can try and go to the directory where you
- want to copy the contents of the file and do :
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- tar xvf /dev/fd0
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- This will extract all the files in the archive. If you had the tar'ed
- version as a file on an msdos floppy I would just mount that floppy
- and get out the contents of the tar file directly.
- (tar xvf /mnt/minicomm.tar) ... (if it's a .taz file do
- tar xvzf /mnt/minicomm.taz )
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- Good luck :) !
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- --
- / John Markus Bj°rndalen
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