RE: tar from/to floppy disk

RE: tar from/to floppy disk

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Michael Reinelt wrote:
> As I said, it only should. With NT4 Server, the floppy starts up, and
> after a few seconds, I get the following:
> 
>    tar: Cannot open /dev/fd0: Not super-user
> 

Take cygwin.dll from my web page. It works with tar floppies on NT (single-volume archives only).

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tar from/to floppy disk

[Michael Reinelt]

I'm trying to get tar to read/write from floppy disks. (It's the only
NT tar which _should_ work with floppies).
As I said, it only should. With NT4 Server, the floppy starts up, and
after a few seconds, I get the following:

   tar: Cannot open /dev/fd0: Not super-user

(Win95 refuses to know about /dev/fd0.)

Already working as administrator, I tried to become super-user :-)
I created /etc/passwd, and changed the UID of administrator to 0. I
added a new user "root", again with UID 0. Doesn't help.

Any hints?

bye, Michael
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