At Mon, 20 May 2002 15:29:50 +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: > Is there an easy way to copy a .deb on to multiple floppies?
use tar's "-M" option. tar cvMf /dev/fd0 file1 file2 ... at the other end: tar xvMf /dev/fd0 in both case, tar will prompt you to insert the next floppy. yes, you can combine it with "-z" (or "-j") and other tar options if you wish. (.deb is already compressed, so no point compressing again) tar will also work out the device size by itself, there's no need to mess about with temporary files, and tar will let you know if you insert the floppies in the wrong order - unlike (eg) split/cat. note that there will be no filesystem on the floppy, just a tar archive. so you can't "mount /dev/fd0" or similar. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
