HP B132L manual Transferring Data To and From a Floppy Diskette, Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette

Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Operating the Floppy Drive

Transferring Data To and From a Floppy Diskette

This section describes how to transfer data to and from your floppy diskette (saving and restoring) using the HP-UX tar command with your floppy drive’s device file.

The tar (tape file archiver) command saves files to a floppy diskette, restores files from a floppy diskette, or lists files on a floppy diskette.

You need to set the write protect tab to the write position to transfer data to the diskette. The write-protect tab can be in either position when restoring data from a diskette or listing the files on a diskette.

Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette

Use the following instructions to save files to a floppy diskette:

1Check that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write position.

2Load the formatted floppy diskette into the disk drive.

3In a terminal window, enter the following command line to write to the diskette:

tar -cvfdevicefile pathname

where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam and pathname is the pathname of the file or directory containing files that you want to write to the diskette.

Restoring Files from a Floppy Diskette to Your System

Use the following instructions to restore files from a floppy diskette to your system:

1Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.

2In a terminal window, use the cd command to change to the directory you want the files to reside in:

cd directory_path

where directory_path is the pathname of the directory.

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