Re: How are base disks created?
Thanks for your help! That explained why I was unable to access them as a
zipped anything. For archival purposes here's what I did:
dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1 skip=512 of=base.p1
#swap floppy here
dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1 skip=512 of=base.p2
#swap floppy here
dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1 skip=512 of=base.p3
#swap floppy here
dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1 skip=512 of=base.p4
cat base.p1 base.p2 base.p3 base.p4 > base.tgz
tar -tvzf base.tgz
voila!
Thanks again.
Linux an unsupported OS? Ha!
Chip
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I guess I didn't answer the question about the base disks. They are
> a gzip-compressed tar archive taken from the file base1_3.tgz (also
> available on our FTP archive). The archive is split into floppy-sized
> pieces and a 512-byte header is put on each floppy. The program that does
> this is floppy-split in the boot-floppies package.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
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