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From: bill@ssbn.UUCP
Newsgroups: att.sys.pc6300,comp.sys.att
Subject: Saving your PC 6300 PLUS kernel
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 18:22:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 18:22:29 1987
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Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX
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I have been working on an installable device driver for the PLUS.  The
last time I tried to test it I managed to scribble all over the super
block and scrubbed the hard disk.  No complaint, it was my stupid
mistake.  What has really been a nuisance is generating a kernel that
is badly busted and having to go back to the distribution kernel and build
it back up with what I have that *does* work.  Today I ran across the
simplest solution.  Copy your distribution diskette 1 of 7 to a blank.
Now mount the blank as /mnt and cp /unix /mnt/unixWINI.  Then if you have
to recover you can just boot from the copy you just made, mount 0s0 as
/mnt and cp unixWINI /mnt/unix.  Sorry if I bored those of you that already
knew that but it sure saved me a lot of time.
-- 
Bill Kennedy  {cbosgd | ihnp4!petro | sun!texsun!rrm}!ssbn!bill