Saving Files To A Floppy Diskette; Restoring Files From A Floppy Diskette To Your System - HP J Class Owner's Manual

Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette

Use the following instructions to save files to a floppy diskette:
1.
Check that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the
write position.
2.
Load the formatted floppy diskette into the disk drive.
3.
Click on the Terminal Control on the Front Panel of your
Workspace.
A terminal window opens.
4.
Move the mouse cursor into the terminal window and click the
left mouse button.
5.
Enter the following command line to write to the diskette:
tar –cvf /dev/rfloppy/c201d0s0 pathname
where pathname is the pathname of the file or directory contain-
ing 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.
Click on the Terminal Control on the Front Panel of your
Workspace.
Enter
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