Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!zodiac.ukc.ac.uk!cur022 From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: install and backup minix Message-ID: <21518.2768bc51@cluster@ukc.ac.uk> Date: 14 Dec 90 11:49:37 GMT References: <10593@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1990Dec11.115631.6137@ericsson.se> <1990Dec12.185024.21646@dsuvax.uucp> Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 14 In article <1990Dec12.185024.21646@dsuvax.uucp>, ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) writes: >>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. You might be interested to know that DOS 3.3 DISKCOPY works OK; but *only* if it is PC-DOS! Unusual to find IBM being less stringent than MS! Anyway, if you have PC-DOS then DISKCOPY should work... -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Bob Eager | University of Kent at Canterbury | +44 227 764000 ext 7589 -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------