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- From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: What's in Development Set?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.023017.6560@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 02:30:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.124105.4309@brtph560.bnr.ca>
- Organization: D and D Data, Vienna Virginia
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- In article <1992Jul22.124105.4309@brtph560.bnr.ca> hruska@bnr.ca (Bob Hruska) writes:
- >
- >I have two different machines that I know little about. For one, I
- >have the complete Foundation 3.51m set on floppy. The other has
- >only the hard drive, but it contains the entire set of software
- >(foundation, development, text formatting)
- >
- >I would like to install the development set (along with foundation
- >3.51m) onto the other machine. My question is, what are all the
- >files in the foundation set I need to move?
-
- More than any sane man would want to list. :-)
-
- Probably the best way to do this is to make a full backup of the
- system which has the development set on floppies (have *lots* of
- pre-formatted floppies - you should probably modify the descriptor file in
- /usr/lib/iv to make a 42-track floppy with 10 sectors/track so as to
- maximize the ammount which fits on each floppy.
-
- Once you have the backup made, you can extract it on the other
- system. This presupposes that there is little other than the foundation and
- development sets on the first box. The backup software will *not* back up
- the foundation set - you should have a full set of diskettes with the
- foundation set for restoring the machine in case of a crash. This I
- normally consider to be a big negative of the behavior of the backup
- software, but in this case, it works to your advantage, since you don't waste
- time copying what is already on the other system.
-
- Good luck
- DoN.
-
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