Subject: Re: floppies
From: Anthony Valentine (amv@akvalentine.com)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 16:13:38 AKDT
Try split first, then write each piece to it's own floppy.
example:
# /usr/bin/split -b 1m FILENAME FILENAME_
This will split the file into 1MB chunks, and name them FILENAME_aa,
FILENAME_ab, etc.
To put them cat together, just do:
# cat FILENAME_* > FILENAME
Hope this help!
Anthony
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 22:57, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> I'm trying to put a 3mb file on more than one floppy, I have tried;
>
> dd if=file.tar of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k count=1 skip=0
>
> Increasing the skip count...When I try to install the package, I get
> disk errors....Is their an easier way of doin this or am I missing
> something silly?
>
> Adam
>
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