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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 19:17:05 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- References: <1993Jan1.011337.773@news.columbia.edu> <1993Jan1.233612.24408@midway.uchicago.edu> <1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <ONEEL.93Jan6091234@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (oneel) writes:
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- >Here's how I do it. I don't have a CD-ROM drive on an OS/2 system but
- >I do have one on a SPARC.
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- >Mount the cd-rom in the sparc.
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- >mount -r -t hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom
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- >Use the unix cp command to copy all the .dsk files to the sparc disk.
- >Use the Info-ZIP ZIP to compress each .dsk file to it's own .zip file.
- >This is because some of the .dsk files don't seem to fit easily on a
- >1.44 meg floppy.
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- >Write each .zip file to a dos formatted floppy using MTOOLS.
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- >Sneakernet the floppies to the OS/2 system.
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- >Read each .zip file onto the OS/2 system.
- >Unzip each .zip file to get .dsk files.
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- >LOADDSKF each .dsk file back to floppies.
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- Is there some way of getting LOADSKF to run of a Sun say- ie, does anyone
- have the source code for LOADSKF which we couod compile onto our
- workatatins and thus make the disk images easily?
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- Bill Unruh
- unruh@physics.ubc.ca
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