1.44 drives on i386

Piercarlo Grandi pcg at aber-cs.UUCP
Sat Dec 2 03:17:51 AEST 1989


In article <4007 at amelia.nas.nasa.gov> izen at cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
    
    Now here's a question for the netlanders:
    
    I'm thinking of swapping my two drives, to make the 1.44 meg (in dos language)
    a:, and my 1.2 meg drive b:.  Does anyone know how I can create a bootable
    1.44 meg 386/ix floppy from my 1.2 meg distibution floppy?  I tried dd
    unsuccessfully, but I could have specified some parameters incorrectly.

This also works for Microport, ESIX, etc...:

Just copy the first track, and then copy the rest. Under esix, copy the
first track using /dev/rdsk/f[01]t, and then copy the rest using
/dev/rdsk/f[01].

Or just copy all the disc but the 1st track using /dev/dsk/f[01], and then
install the boot /etc/fboot on the 1st track using /dev/dsk/f1t.
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