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From: bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Backups of Distibution Floppies
Summary: Diskcopy works with SCO386 (RTFM)
Message-ID: <65@mdi386.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 14:13:24 GMT
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Organization: Wells Computer Systems Corp., Levittown, Pa. 19058
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In article <752@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> wondering how to make backups of the distribution floppy disks?  Can you use
> DISKCOPY or are they *NIX-formatted disks?  If the latter, are they mountable,
> or are the files tar/cpio archives?  Or ???
> Pete Holsberg, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ 08690  
> {backbone}!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh
The SCO version is built on disks that are similar in format to DOS disks.
The first 1 (or two, depending on which disk size) are filesystems, the rest
are tar archives.  If you read the manual, on of the first tasks it recommends
is to BACKUP UP the distribution disks.  Since SCO uses a Serialno protection
there is no other backup protection involved.
You CAN use diskcopy to copy ALL of the SCO distribution disks.
bruce
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