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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Prob. copying 5.0 5.25" setup to 3.5"
- Message-ID: <820@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 18:15:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.154638.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> <jcmorris.726327474@mwunix>
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- In article <jcmorris.726327474@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
- >I suspect that your problem is not a missing file but the volume serial
- >numbers. A 3-1/2" HD diskette can obviously hold the entire contents
- >of a 5-1/4" disk, so you should be able to copy the disks with the COPY
- >command (no subdirectories exist, so XCOPY isn't needed), then make
- >sure that each target disk is assigned the volume label of the disk
- >from which it was copied...and watch the spaces. The volume labels
- >are probably of the form:
- >
- > DISK 1
- >
- >Note all the embedded spaces. Check each disk as you copy it and
- >use the LABEL command to write the appropriate label to your 3-1/2" disk.
-
- This only works if the 3.5" disks have less than 1.2m of files.
-
- Some product distributions are different for 3.5 & 5.25, including
- the index files which says which volume to find which files on,
- so copying like this does not always work. (If you're going
- from 3.5 to 5.25 -- the other way around should not be a problem.)
-
- Whether it works for the DOS 5.0 upgrade I have no idea.
-
-
- -Richard Hartman
- hartman@ulogic.COM
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