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From: "Lutz Michaelsen" <lmicha@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: How to transfer data from Xenix 2.3.4 harddisk to Linux 2.4.19
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:48:56 +0200
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Dear all,

Finally I got all the the data from my xenix box to my linux box ... thanks
to everybody.

What did I do ...

Xenix Box
-----------
installed a small IDE disk (1GB) as 2. harddisk
fdisk => xenix partition, no filesystem created
tar cvf  /dev/rdsk/1s0 <directory-to-transfer>


Linux Box
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installed IDE disk as Slave on 2. IDE controller
tar xvf  /dev/hdd

Here we are ... all data arrived perfectly.

Thanks to everybody for all the hints.

Regards
Lutz


"Steve Kirkendall" <skirkendall@dsl-only.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3d593e6d@nntp0.pdx.net...
> Lutz Michaelsen wrote:
> > I installed a second harddisk in the xenix box and created a single
> > partition with "mkdev hd". I was able to put the Xenix data on this new
> > harddisk, but Linux was still not able to mount the new harddisk.
> >
> > Question: What else can I try to transfer the data from Xenix to Linux?
>
> Instead of putting a Xenix filesystem on that second hard disk, I suggest
> you try using tar to write to it directly.  I haven't messed with hard
> disks in Xenix for a long time, but I *think* the command to write the
> data would be...
>
>         tar cvf /dev/hd11 /directory/containing/your/data
>
> On the Linux end, you would extract the data with...
>
>         tar xPvf /dev/hdb1
>
> Obviously this is untested, and you *definitely* want to know what
> those device names (/dev/hd11 and /dev/hdb1) on their respective OSes
> before you consider trying this.  ("man HW hd" on Xenix, and "man hd"
> on Linux.)  You could clobber the data on the wrong hard disk if you
> get it wrong.  The partition number may need to be tweaked; I tried
> to use partition 1 of the second disk on both OSes but partition
> numbering is not very well standardized so "1" on one OS could be
> anything from "0" to "4" on the other.

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