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From: wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Boot-picture on HD's
Message-ID: <4718.AA4718@sosaria>
Date: 8 Jun 90 19:02:13 GMT
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Organization: Sosaria Realm Berne, Switzerland
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In article <3160@ifi.uio.no> eriks@ifi.uio.no (Erik Saastad) says:
> Does anyone know of any utility to copy the boot-sector from a floppy to
> the boot sector on a hard-drive?
> 
> What I'd like to do is use Bootgirl to copy an Iff picture to a
> diskette, and then copy the boot-sector (and the extra file) to BOOT's
> boot-sector. Or maybe an utility to copy boot-sectors that worked with
> assignings (assign df1: to dh0:).

May the gods protect us from such a program! Imagine: How long would it
take for some s*cker to write a harddisk-bootblock-virus...

By the way, I'm using FluShot+ on Messydos and I'm very happy with it.
Where are you, porters and converters of other system's good tools?


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Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com
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