steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) (06/08/90)
I hope you people can help. I have a large number of disks in my possession which were created using the Bell Tech 'store' utility under sysadm. I have an Esix system which has a restore, but is apparently a different thing altogether, since I can't get any thing off the disks. I haven't a clue as to how the Bell Tech 'store' worked, but assume it was a script with some sort of strange cpio command in it. Regardless, I'd very much like to get this stuff off disk rather than copying it from the net again. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. -- SMY Stephen M. Youndt uunet!hacker!steve
steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) (06/10/90)
I originally said: --I hope you people can help. I have a large number of disks in my possession --which were created using the Bell Tech 'store' utility under sysadm. I have --an Esix system which has a restore, but is apparently a different thing --altogether, since I can't get any thing off the disks. I haven't a clue as --to how the Bell Tech 'store' worked, but assume it was a script with some --sort of strange cpio command in it. Regardless, I'd very much like to get this --stuff off disk rather than copying it from the net again. If anyone can help, --I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. -- SMY Doug Ingraham responded: -You might give that a try. Something like - -cpio -itv -I /dev/rdsk/f0q15d - -to get a directory of the tape. You might also try tar with the same -device. I know that under 3.0 this is how most all the diskettes were -written. - Bingo!! You were very nearly right, which got me the rest of the way. They do, in fact, use the boot sector, so the device is f0q15dt. I hope the rest of you find this as useful as I did. Thanks, Doug. -- SMY Stephen M. Youndt uunet!hacker!steve