Re: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> > Why are there always utilities to do this?
> >
> > What would happen if I wrote a simple program to output the file in volumes
> > of a certain size, and then used "cat" to stick em end to end?
>
> that works. I had to do this a few times.
I actually have a similar problem myself...
I would like to back up by debian system with my non-linux-compatible tape
drive. My theory is that I can dump it in say 20 MB volumes to a file on a
DOS partition, and use dos to throw it onto the tape. The tape can hold
about 400 MB --> the size limit will come from how much space I can free in
my Win95 partition which is only 100 megs and is nearly full.
I have read the manpage for afia -- it supports volumes. Is there any way I
can tell it to output only "volume 3" once and next time only "volume 4"?
I am thinking I should have it dump to a symlink and make the symlink point
to /dev/null for all but the volume I want each time... is this feasible?
Is there a better way?
(Of course the _right_ way would be to write a driver for my tape drive.)
(I expect to mount my system readonly to do this, but I could mount a
ramdisk to hold the symlink... still a pita probably.)
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