swie@cs.umn.edu (S. T. Tan) (11/17/90)
I have SCO Xenix 386 with 5.25 inch diskettes. But my laptop has a 3.5 inch 1.44 M disk drive. How can I copy the OS to 3.5 inch diskettes ? Any advice will be appreciated. swie@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
karl@robot.in-berlin.de (Karl-P. Huestegge) (11/21/90)
swie@cs.umn.edu (S. T. Tan) writes: >I have SCO Xenix 386 with 5.25 inch diskettes. >But my laptop has a 3.5 inch 1.44 M disk drive. >How can I copy the OS to 3.5 inch diskettes ? You must have access to a working xenix system. First make a bootable 3.5" floppy with the mkdev fd utility. You can also do it by hand if you look at the commands in the /usr/lib/mkdev/fd - script. (select boot & root) Mount the floppy and the N1 5.25 floppy, too. Copy all files/directories/devices with cpio from the 5.25 to the 3.5 fd. For example you might copy the devices from the mounted 5.25 fd to the mounted 3.5 fd in /mnt3.5 with the command: cd /mnt/dev; ls | cpio -pdlm /mnt3.5/dev All other floppies can simply be copied with dd. dd if=/dev/rfd0 ibs=1200 of=/dev/rfd1 obs=1440 /* fd0=5.25,fd1=3.5 */ If you are interested in details, look at the man pages for mkfs, dd, cpio and at the fd script. Hope, this helps. -- Karl-Peter Huestegge karl@robot.in-berlin.de Berlin Friedenau ..unido!fub!geminix!robot!karl