On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 04:08:59AM -0000, Paul Dufresne wrote: > I have just installed potato on a PowerMachintosh G3. > > > > I have written big files on multifloppies with: > > tar cvMf /dev/fd0 filename > > on a Linux on x86 (fast internet) and can't installs them on > > the G3 because it tries to read past the end of the disk > > (2880 sector to 2889 get errors, and I need to reboot after that)
You could work around this by using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=foobar count=2880 (The default bs=512.) Does look like a bug though. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
