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#! rnews 1359 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.cdsnet.net!cpmt.cyberport.net!usenet From: Mike Holling <myke@cyberport.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: BSDI floppies/HD on FreeBSD? Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 18:18:00 -0600 Organization: CyberPort Montana Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3172E738.4E7F088C@cyberport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mmg.cyberport.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) I have a floppy containing a tar archive for BSDI (the distribution disk for a commercial product). I can untar it under BSDI: tar xvf /dev/fd0a This doesn't seem to work on a FreeBSD system, for any floppy device. I can't mount the floppy so I guess it doesn't have a filesystem. I tried creating a tar archive myself, using tar -cvf /dev/fd0 stuff on the BSDI box and tar -tvf /dev/fd0 on FreeBSD to examine it. This works fine. Am I missing something? Why can't I read the other floppy on the FreeBSD system? If it's just tarred straight to floppy why do the instructions say to use /dev/fd0a instead of /dev/fd0? - Mike myke@cyberport.net