I need to mount the drive. The network card is 15 years old and
non-functional. Of course, being a commercial kernel, I can't exactly
compile in a new driver for a network card.
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:54:59 -0700
> From: Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com>
> To: Jim Roland <jim@roland.net>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Nostalgia: System V Release 2 filesystem
>
> On Fri Mar 24, 2000 at 11:31:18PM -0600, Jim Roland wrote:
> >
> > However, I am needing to mount the drive under Linux. I've searched for
> > over 7-8 hours all over the net, kernel documentation, etc, but am unable
> > to get the drive to mount.
> >
>
> 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.
>
> -Erik
>
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