On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:54:59AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Why do you need to mount it? To copy off the files? Try taring up the files
> in question, run "compress" on them, and then ftp them over to your Linux box
> (I'm assuming here it can connect to a network)... If it can't do networking,
> then take the tarball and run split on it to split it into floppy disk sized
> chunks, and then dd the chunks onto a floppy disk.
>
> Then on linux, dd the chunks off of the floppies, cat the chunks together, and
> uncompress/untar them.
The oooold program fdio is an easier way to split the archive over multiple
media or even easier, use cpio instead of tar.
Ralf
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