bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Bakke) (07/26/90)
Heres something I was wondering about. I have a 386-33 with Interactive 386ix installed (2.0.2). The distribution disks are on 5.25 (1.2 Meg) diskettes. I want to get a full backup copy of the diskettes onto 3.5 if possible (1.44). The standard package diskettes I know can be simply copied by mounting the file system. The only disk which is actually special is the boot disk. I know that you can mount the file system on the boot disk if you mount it as a /dev/fxxxxd device and not a /dev/fxxxxdt device. But the boot sector (sector 0?) can't be read or copied. What is the easiest and simplest way to make a 3.5 Boot Install Diskette? I've just messed around with a little with things like 'dd if=5.25 of=3.5 count=1' to see if I could grab the boot sector but I doesn't seem to work at all. Can anybody make a recommendation? It would really be nice to have the Diskettes available on 3.5. Jeffrey P. Bakke | Internet: bakke@plains.NoDak.edu | "Life... don't talk 2550 15th Str S #23B | UUCP : ...!uunet!plains!bakke | to me about life..." Fargo, ND 58105 | BITNET : bakke@plains.bitnet | - Marvin the PA