diskette copying in rt/aix

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <1957 at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> tim at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Timothy Jones) writes:
>How do I make copies of diskettes under rt/aix?  I'm trying to make
>backups of some "installp" diskettes.

If you don't have two floppy drives [ go buy one, they're cheap ],
copy the entire diskette in image format to /usr/tmp or /tmp.  Like
this:

# dd if=/dev/rfd0 bs=30b of=/tmp/floppy

then copy the floppy image back to the diskette, like this:

# dd if=/tmp/floppy bs=30b of=/dev/rfd0

You can change the 30b to 36b if you are using AIX on something
with a 3.5" floppy drive.

A second floppy drive is worth the expense.  I paid $90 for
one earlier this summer.
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