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The simplest answer is: Set up NFS.

OK, I take it, you are talking about messing with floppies..

Quote:> Not the x86 type sun but a sparc station. Can I tar to a diskette on  the sun
> and then move the diskette to a linux intel machine and read it off after
> mounting it?

Exactly. The only thing is, you don't need to mount anything as this
always involves a common filesystem. Insert a writable disk into the
Sun's drive and type:

tar cvf /dev/fd0 <file_or_dirname>

Then you'll need to type "eject" to remove the floppy. Insert it to
the Linux box and type

tar xvf /dev/fd0

Note the following: if you have already come across the "dd" command:
dd is only useful if an exact image of the file is required *on*the*floppy*,
for instance in case of bootable floppies. In any other case, tar is
much simpler to use. Also, if you have Gnu tar, then you can incorporate
(de)compression on the fly by using the "z" option.

cheers,

Frank

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Everything is correct except you don't mount it. Do something like this:

   tar cvf /dev/floppy files1 files2 directory1 directory2

on the Sun and do something like this on the Linux machine:

   tar xvf /dev/floppy

Have a look at the man page on tar in the Linux machine or gtar in the
Sun
machine.

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