Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!edhew
From: edhew@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Copying Xenix files in DOS
Summary: making/using backup of SCO distribution media
Message-ID: <2023@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 89 04:00:00 GMT
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In article <760@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>A friend of mine hates to do installations from distribution diskettes,
>preferring to copy the diskettes and install from the copies.  Is it possible
>to do this with SCO Xenix and, say, DISKCOPY?  Thanks.

Look up diskcp(C) in the SCO User's Reference (that's the one with the
'(C)(M)(F)' on the spine).  Since it says "diskcp is used to make an image
(exact copy) of a source floppy ....", that would imply to me that it's
making a 'bit for bit' copy, which would also take care of higher level
dependancies, like the N1 mountable floppy filesystem.
 
I've never actually tried this, but it should work.

>-- 
>Pete Holsberg, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ 08690  
>{backbone}!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh

  Ed. A. Hew       Authorized Technical Trainer        Xeni/Con Corporation
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  # I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on floppy around here somewhere!