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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 Enter: 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 7 of this document, "solving problems." 76 Chapter 3

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Chapter 3
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
Enter
:
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 7 of this document, “solving problems.”