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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
5 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