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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Backing Up 1.3 on One-Floppy System
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Date: 29 Dec 89 18:10:09 GMT
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Backing up, summary:

Here's what people have told me and what I did.

Situation:
   1.3, AT version, only one 1.2MB drive available.

Problem:
   How to back up distribution disks.

   Suggestion: use DOS diskcopy a: a:  I seem to remember
   that I used diskcopy a: b: back with 1.1, when everything
   was on 360K disks.  Maybe I used cp /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1, I
   don't recall now.
      But diskcopy a: a: does *not* work with MS-DOS (3.2).
   I'm told it does work with PC-DOS (pretty curious).

   Once I had the hard disk going, and because I could spare
   the space for 6MB, what I did was painful but effective.
   I created five files (disk[1-5]) on /user with
      cp /dev/at0 /user/disk1
   etc. and make copies by doing the inverse.  Seems to work
   ok.


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