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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 1.44 drives on i386
Summary: 1.44 boot floppy: copy 1st track separately.
Message-ID: <1500@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 16:17:51 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <4007@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> izen@cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
    
    Now here's a question for the netlanders:
    
    I'm thinking of swapping my two drives, to make the 1.44 meg (in dos language)
    a:, and my 1.2 meg drive b:.  Does anyone know how I can create a bootable
    1.44 meg 386/ix floppy from my 1.2 meg distibution floppy?  I tried dd
    unsuccessfully, but I could have specified some parameters incorrectly.

This also works for Microport, ESIX, etc...:

Just copy the first track, and then copy the rest. Under esix, copy the
first track using /dev/rdsk/f[01]t, and then copy the rest using
/dev/rdsk/f[01].

Or just copy all the disc but the 1st track using /dev/dsk/f[01], and then
install the boot /etc/fboot on the 1st track using /dev/dsk/f1t.
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