Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: install and backup minix Message-ID: <1990Dec12.185024.21646@dsuvax.uucp> Date: 12 Dec 90 18:50:24 GMT References: <10593@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1990Dec11.115631.6137@ericsson.se> Organization: Dakota State University Lines: 23 In umbaugh@evax.arl.utexas.edu (David Umbaugh) writes: >>>>>> 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 >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. -- Guy Helmer helmer@sdnet.bitnet, uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer work: DSU Computing Services, Business & Education Institute (605) 256-5315 play: MidIX System Support Services (605) 256-2788 postnews: message content ambiguous; spurious information added as required