Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Restoring Files from a Floppy Diskette to Your System
Use the following instructions to restore files from a floppy diskette to your system:
1.Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.
2.Type the following command in a terminal window at the prompt and press Enter:
cd directory_path
This command changes you to the directory in which you want the files to reside.
3.Enter the following command at the prompt and press Enter:
tar
where devicefile is the device file as listed in SAM (see the section “Using Device Files” in this chapter) and pathname is the path name of the file or directory containing files that you want to restore from the diskette. If you do not specify pathname, everything on the floppy diskette is restored.
Listing the Files on a Floppy Diskette
Use the following instructions to list the files on a floppy diskette:
1.Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.
2.Enter the following command in a terminal window at the prompt and press Enter:
tar
where devicefile is the device file as listed by SAM. See the section “Using Device Files” in this chapter. Note that this command will list all files on the floppy diskette.
Troubleshooting
If you have trouble with any of the procedures for using your floppy disk drive, see Chapter 7 of this document, “Solving Problems.”
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