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From: gchamby@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Greg Chamby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: install and backup minix
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Date: 14 Dec 90 01:48:34 GMT
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Brian Wilson writes:

>The disks we got were not formatted on all 80 tracks, therefore the
>standard ms-dos diskcopy would not work. Also, the boot block on the boot
>disks makes it uncopyable with diskcopy.

I've seen others complaining of being unable to diskcopy the
Minix disks. I've never had a problem doing DISKCOPY A: A: under
PCDOS 3.30 on serveral machines. I copied all the 1.2 and 1.3
distributions this way. Although I assume the disks I received
were formatted on all tracks since DISKCOPY read all of them
fine. Just curious as to what problems others have had in this
regard.

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