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Use this
program to create and distribute your VTS disks. It is a Graphical version of RawWrite. mike Mike Brown 1611 Wilmeth Road McKinney, TX 75069-8250 972.542.6000 800.433.8683 -----Original
Message----- We
used to use DOS and Windows DISKCOPY to duplicate VTS disks but it seems that
these have become too fussy. The Windows Copy Disk (right click on the
floppy drive in the explorer) can't read a Unix source disk and the DOS box
DISKCOPY complains that a pre-formatted target diskette is incompatible.
So we now need to do the copies on a Unix system. There is a ddiskcopy utility
floating around and you can use that if it's installed (just try running
it). Otherwise, here's how to do the deed using the trusty dd utility. (1) First, you need to copy the
source disk image to a file. You can make as many copies as you want from
a single image so name and place it according to your needs. Assuming
that you will be finished in one session, I would recommend putting it in
/tmp/mydisk1 . Use disk numbers to keep track of multiple disk
images. The command for this is: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/mydisk1 (2) Second, copy the image to as
many blank disks as you need. For each one the command is: dd if=/tmp/mydisk1 of=/dev/fd0 (3) (Optional) Verify the
copy. The VTS install disks are prepared using tar so you can verify the
copy using: tar tvf /dev/fd0 This reads the disk and lists the
contents. You don't need to wait until the bitter end so if it's listing
files and not giving errors you can abort this using CTRL-C. (4) Clean up. If you don't
need to keep your disk image files around, delete them using: rm /tmp/mydisk1 ...and that's it. Of course licensing issues are
another matter. :-)
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