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HP C100/110 User Manual

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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Operating the Floppy Drive

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Enter the following command line to write to the diskette:

tar -cvf /dev/rfloppy/c20Ad1s0 pathname

where pathname is the pathname 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

Click on the Terminal Control on the Front Panel of your Workspace.

A terminal window opens.

3

Move the mouse cursor into the terminal window and click the left mouse button.

4

Use the cd command to change to the directory you want the files to reside in:

cd directory_path

where directory_path is the pathname of the directory.

Terminal Control