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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!alchemy!accucx!jaapv
- From: jaapv@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Jaap Verhage)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: More help
- Keywords: minix help
- Message-ID: <3032@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:40:19 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.061617.18397@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Reply-To: jaapv@accucx.cc.ruu.nl
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
- Lines: 21
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- ice@eskimo.celestial.com (Greg Toth) writes:
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- >Ok, I have Minix on 3.5" disks. tThe 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?
- >Just by readn the manual it is not even clear which command , if any,
- >is used to perform backups. I probably sound a little stupid but
- >the manual is not clear and I do not have a lot of time to experiment.
- >Thanks in advance.
- I'd say:
- `dd' the 3.5" to your 5.25" drive , assuming you have a HD-5.25"
- drive and a program capable of formatting the disk to the capacity
- of your 3.5" disk. FDFORMAT comes to mind (for DOS). Or just try
- `dd' without worrying; I guess the boot images on 3.5" and 5.25"
- are the same. Good luck.
- --
- Regards, Jaap.
-
- Jaap Verhage, Academic Computer Centre, Utrecht University, Holland.
- jaapv@accucx.cc.ruu.nl +<-*|*->+ I claim *every*thing and speak for myself
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