HP Visualize J5000 Owner's Manual page 118

Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
2. Load the formatted floppy diskette into the disk drive.
3. Type the following in a terminal window at the prompt and press
:
Enter
tar -cvf devicefile pathname
where devicefile is the device file as listed by SAM and pathname is
the path name 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:
1. Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.
2. Type the following 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 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.
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