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- Path: sparky!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!palan!tct!paul
- From: paul@tct.com (Paul Levin)
- Subject: Re: Copy OS/2 from one HD to an other.
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:07:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bx8xwG.C8B@tct.com>
- References: <1992Nov4.220008.6743@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- According to gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (7183):
- >Hi,
- > Has anybody tried this before. Soon we will be installing OS/2 2.0 on many
- >PC's. If I can install it on one, and the do an "XCOPY" of all the files
- >from one HD to an other, that would save dozens of hours.
- > What I want to do, is install OS/2 on a PC, configure it plain Jane and
- >the install the hard disk from an other PC as a second disk and copy OS/2
- >to it. After that, I can just put the disk back in the other PC and have
- >two OS/2's installed after 2 hours instead of 4! Wouldn't it be great!?
- >
-
- I do not think you can do this. If you do the copy under OS/2, it will
- not copy files that are open, like the desktop. If you do the copy
- under DOS (assuming your only using FAT and not HPFS) they you won't get
- some of the hidden or system files, not to mention the boot sector.
- It "only" took me 40 minutes to install OS/2.0. If you do several machines
- in parallel, it shouldn't be too bad.
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- From: Paul Levin paul@count.tct.com 813-532-2239 (work, 9-5 EST)
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