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- From: edi@edefix.han.de (E. v. Pappenheim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: distrution disk backup
- Message-ID: <BsytHE.4Cv@edefix.han.de>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 08:41:36 GMT
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- rbean@netcom.com (William Chen) writes:
- : I got the 4.0 package last week.
- :
- : Big question, how do I backup the five distribution disks. Do I just make a
- : bootable floppy according to the Lexicon's booting section, and then there-
- : after mount every floppy disk, copy with cpdir everything from the floppy to
- : the HD, and then cpdir that to a newly fdformat-mkfs floppy.
- :
- : Are there any special fdformating parameters? What about mkfs -b ? What
- : exactly does that do?
- :
- : Thanks,
- :
- :
- : -Will
- :
- :
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- Use the program dd (see its lexicon entry for dedails).
-
- Ecki
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