Coping files from a floopy.

[gary2425]

Hello Everyone,
I have a file, that's saved on 5 floppy disks. I want to copy the file to my linux box, this is the command i am running " tar xvf /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0 ", but this only copies the file that's on the disk, it doesn't prompt me to insert 2nd disk. if someone knows about another command i can type in, that would be very helpful,
thanx

 

[Chacalinc]

is the file in tar format? copy all files in the hard disk and concatenate them:

mcopy a: file.1
mcopy a: file.2
mcopy a: file.3
mcopy a: file.4
mcopy a: file.5

or mount the floppy (mount /mnt/floppy)

and then cat file.1 file.2 ... > file.tar

Cheers.

 

[clonny2]

For tar you need to use -multi-volume.

It would be easier to use mcopy and to view use mdir a:.

You need to have mtools installed, but probably are.

The disk you were using tar with will need to be reformated to fat now.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[gary2425]

i tryed using mcopy or mdir a:"no Luck"
i have a file name "patient.dat" that is about 7mb from a unix machine, which copied on 5 disks. now whenever i use the tar command on the linux machine it just copies that patient.dat from the 1st disk and doesn't ask me to enter the 2nd disk, and whenever i run the tar command again for the 2nd disk, it just overwrites it.

 

[Chacalinc]

how do you create the disks? what was the command? was the floppy formated as vfat? or what?

 

[gary2425]

the command i used was

cd /;tar cvfkpb /dev/rfd0135ds18 1400 10 ./u/files/patient.dat

 

[Chacalinc]

ok, the floppy should be as raw, so get the content of the floppy disks with dd command and then concatenate them together in only one tar file:

dd if=/dev/floppy of=/path_destiny/file1.dat
dd if=/dev/floppy of=/path_destiny/file2.dat
...
dd if=/dev/floppy of=/path_destiny/file5.dat

cat file1.dat file2.dat ... file5.dat > big_file.tar