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- From: awoodhull@hamp.hampshire.edu
- Subject: Re: More help
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- References: <1992Aug28.061617.18397@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:33:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.061617.18397@eskimo.celestial.com>, ice@eskimo.
- celestial.com (Greg Toth) writes:
- >
- > Ok, I have Minix on 3.5" disks. The boot drive of my IBM is a 5.25.
- > I can borrow a IBM with a 3.5" boot drive and 5.25 second drive and
- > run but how can I back up my 3.5" boot disk to the 5.25?
-
- To copy files from the 3.5 to 5.25 the best way is to use the Minix
- cpdir command; if some directories won't fit in their entirety on the
- smaller format disks you'll probably have to copy the leftover files
- by hand.
-
- It might be possible to copy the entire device file from one drive to
- another to copy the boot disk, i.e., cp /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1. I am not
- sure this will work. I am pretty sure there is actually no more than
- 360K of stuff on the 3.5" boot disk, so it should fit on the 5.25" disk.
-
- Possibly to make a 5.25" boot disk you'll have to go through building
- a new system image as described in the section on recompiling Minix.
-
- There are some things that could help further down the road, but if you
- are just getting started you don't have the resources. In particular
- MXBoot and other systems for booting Minix from the hard drive provide
- for putting the system image into a file on the Minix file system and
- using a modified boot procedure that knows how to read a file. This
- makes it really easy to set up a new boot disk of any format, you just
- make a disk with the Minix file system, put the modified boot sector on
- it, and copy the minix.image file to its root or /system directory.
-
- Albert S. Woodhull
- School of Natural Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002
- 413-549-4600 ext 581 (office), 413-549-4740 (home)
- awoodhull@hamp.hampshire.edu, woodhull@dawn.hampshire.edu
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