07-15-2013
Am I correct in assuming you have the following hardware:
Ubuntu with network access, no diskette drive.
Windows with network access and a diskette drive.
Unix with no network access, and a diskette drive.
1. The tar file that you create on the Ubuntu system should be readable on the unix system if, there are less than 17 levels of directories, and no file name including the path name exceeds 99 characters.
2. Check the unix system to see if it has dos utilities: doscp, dosrm, dosls, dosformat, dosdir. If so you may be able to read a dos formatted diskette.
eg: #doscp a:/mytarfile.tar /tmp/mytarfile.tar
Note that a forward slash is used instead of a backslash.
3. Do you have serial ports on the unix system, and at least one of the others?
The unix system should have uucp installed. You will need to create a null modem cable to connect the serial ports. You may have to install uucp on the ubuntu system. There are windows versions of uucp as well.
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DOSSRV(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual DOSSRV(4)
NAME
dossrv, 9660srv, a:, b:, c:, eject - DOS and ISO9660 file systems
SYNOPSIS
dossrv [ -v ] [ -s ] [ -f file ] [ service ]
9660srv [ -v ] [ -s ] [ -f file ] [ service ]
a:
b:
c:
eject [ n ]
DESCRIPTION
Dossrv is a file server that interprets DOS file systems. A single instance of dossrv can provide access to multiple DOS disks simultane-
ously.
Dossrv posts a file descriptor named service (default dos) in the /srv directory. To access the DOS file system on a device, use mount
with the spec argument (see bind(1)) the name of the file holding raw DOS file system, typically the disk. If spec is undefined in the
mount, dossrv will use file as the default name for the device holding the DOS system.
Normally dossrv creates a pipe to act as the communications channel between itself and its clients. The -s flag instructs dossrv to use
its standard input and output instead. The kernels use this if they are booting from a DOS disk. This flag also prevents the creation of
an explicit service file in /srv.
The -v flag causes verbose output for debugging.
The shell script a: contains
unmount /n/a: >[2] /dev/null
mount -c /srv/dos /n/a: /dev/fd0disk
and is therefore a shorthand for mounting a floppy disk in drive A. The scripts b: and c: are similar.
9660srv is identical to dossrv in specification, except that it interprets ISO9660 CD-ROM file systems instead of DOS file systems.
If the floppy drive has an ejection motor, eject will spit out the floppy from drive n, default 0.
EXAMPLE
Mount a floppy disk with a DOS file system on it.
dossrv
a:
SEE ALSO
kfs(4)
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/dossrv
/sys/src/cmd/9660srv
/rc/bin/eject
DOSSRV(4)