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Date:      Wed,  4 Jan 1995 13:28:20 UTC+0100
From:      Javier Martin Rueda <jmrueda@diatel.upm.es>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I ftped, Now what?
Message-ID:  <553*/S=jmrueda/OU=diatel/O=upm/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS>
In-Reply-To: <m0rPPSJ-0008blC@eagle.ais.net>

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> I ftped everything under the 2.0-FreeBSD directory.  I currently run 
> SCO (sorry :) but would like to convert to FreeBSD.  I have a 2GB SCSII DAT
> drive.  I've read everything I could get my hands on.  But I'm still not
> sure what to do next.  I know I need to create the floppies, but what files/
> directories do I move to the tape.  And, wht do I use, tar or cpio?

I suggest you use tar and begin dumping from the 2.0-RELEASE directory, so
that the tape looks like:

bindist/xxxxxx




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