Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!evax.utarl.edu!umbaugh From: umbaugh@evax.arl.utexas.edu (David Umbaugh) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: install and backup minix Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 90 17:49:51 GMT References: <10593@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1990Dec11.115631.6137@ericsson.se> Sender: usenet@evax.arl.utexas.edu (USENET Dummy account for GNUS) Reply-To: umbaugh@evax.utarl.edu Organization: CSE Dept., University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: epames@eos.ericsson.se's message of 11 Dec 90 11:56:31 GMT >>>>> On 11 Dec 90 11:56:31 GMT, epames@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) said: >> In article <10593@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Milton Cha writes: >i just received my minix 1.5 and want to backup the >disks. does anyone know what to use to backup the >disk if they are not ms-dos compatible? also, are >> When I got my copy of minix I had the same problem and the way >> I got around it was to read the diskette into a file and then >> write it out to another diskette. It took about an hour to write >> in Turbo Pascal. Avoid the MS-DOS interface and go straight to >> the bios and its all a piece of cake. If I remember correctly the >> stack pointer is destroyed so you have to save and restore it. >> Hope that this is of some use. I have always had good success with: DISKCOPY A: B: or if you have only one floppy drive, DISKCOPY A: A: >> Regards >> Michael Salmon Hope it works for you. Seems to work better if the destination diskette is already formatted. -- L. David (Dave) Umbaugh Computer Science Engineering University of Texas at Arlington BITNET PO Box 19015 Arlington, TX 76012 (817) 273-3628 417 N. Cooper Street, Room 300