Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rc6.urc.tue.nl!rwc.urc.tue.nl!rcbatg From: rcbatg@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: install and backup minix Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 90 09:42:55 GMT References: <10593@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1990Dec11.115631.6137@ericsson.se> <1990Dec12.185024.21646@dsuvax.uucp> Sender: News Administration Reply-To: rcbatg@urc.tue.nl Lines: 27 ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) writes: >In umbaugh@evax.arl.utexas.edu (David Umbaugh) writes: >>I have always had good success with: >>DISKCOPY A: B: >> or if you have only one floppy drive, >>DISKCOPY A: A: >This works great if you are using DOS 2.x or earlier. Later DOS versions >want to read the first sector of the disk to determine what the diskette's >layout is, so they abort when they see MINIX stuff. I use PC-dos 3.30 and never had any problems copying non-dos disks with diskcopy. I believe that is a problem with MS-dos only. Tonnie Geraets, Internet: rcbatg@urc.tue.nl Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL Bitner: rcgbbatg@heitue51.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mam, wat vroeger God deed doet nu de computer, he?" - Robbie Bergmans (7) ("Mom, what God used to do, is now done by a computer, isn't it?") -- Tonnie Geraets, Internet: rcbatg@urc.tue.nl Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL Bitner: rcgbbatg@heitue51.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------------