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Restoring Files from a Floppy Diskette to Your System
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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 Enter: 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. 118 Chapter 6