Listing The Files On A Floppy Diskette; Troubleshooting - HP Visualize c3700 Owner's Manual

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
tar -xvf devicefile pathname
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 -tvf devicefile
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 6 of this document, "Solving Problems."
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