finn@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn) (03/16/91)
Following is the most complete reply I've gotten on compatibility
between NeXT and SPARC floppies. Another worthwhile suggestion for
transferring files is to use DOS formatted floppies, which can be
read and written by both the NeXT and the SPARC (with the PD mtools
software, available from wuarchive).
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Subject: sun->next
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Dear L.S. Finn:
After a few questions to NeXT and my local guru I did figure out how
to transfer files from sun to NeXT and back using unix formatted floppies.
To transfer from sun-> next
1. format floppy
2. tar cvf /dev/rfd0a fname
3. eject disk
Now on the NeXT open up a unix shell, become superuser (you can probably
avoid this if you want by changing some permissions) and type
1. tar xvf /dev/rfd0b fname
NOTE the rfd0b. This is the part that was hard to figure out. Somehow this
is the active partition or something like that.
Now just
2. disk -e /dev/rfd0a
to eject the disk from the NeXT. You may also want to chown the
resulting file so it is not owned by root.
To go the other way just reverse this procedure.
Hope this helps.
Jeff Harvey
harvey@curie.uchicago.edu