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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Backups of Distibution Floppies
Summary: use `dd'
Message-ID: <682@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 21 May 89 00:46:06 GMT
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Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
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In article <752@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>I have Microport V/386 and a friend has SCO Xenix/386, and we were both
>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 ???

The easiest thing to do is use dd:
Floppy 0 to floppy 1:

	dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1

Or, floppy 0 to HD to floppy 0:

	dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/disk_image
	dd if=/tmp/disk_image of=/dev/fd0

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com