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From: epames@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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Subject: Re: install and backup minix
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Date: 11 Dec 90 11:56:31 GMT
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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.

Regards
    Michael Salmon