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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:12:15 +0000
From:      Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to copy an image file on a ls120 disk to another?
Message-ID:  <20020319181215.A3462@icarus.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020319120538.817C.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com>; from xiaowu23@yahoo.com on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0600
References:  <20020319095412.816E.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com> <20020319185808.A4580@goku.kasby> <20020319120538.817C.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com>

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In that case, you will need to copy the image to your hard disk, change
LS120 disk, then write the image file back.  I would use dd for both stages.

Of course, none of this is necessary if you have another LS120 drive!  ;-)

HTH

Dan

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0600, xw wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the pointer.
> 
> But what should I do if I want to copy a LS120 disk to another?  
> Not from HD to LS120. 
> 
> Thanks again. 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:58:08 +0100
> Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> wrote:
> 
> Francesco> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:05:57AM -0600, xw wrote:
> Francesco> > A super newbie question. Please help.
> Francesco> > 
> Francesco> > I have two ls120 disks, one is a bootdisk and another containing 
> Francesco> > an image file. I want to make a backup copy of each on new ls120 
> Francesco> > disks. Is there any command that I can use for this purpose? 
> Francesco> > Or do I need any special program? 
> Francesco> > 
> Francesco> > Any help and advice would be very much appreciated!! Thank you. 
> Francesco> > 
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> Francesco> Read the section 12.11 "Backups to Floppies" of the handbook. You can view the
> Francesco> online version at:
> Francesco> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backups-floppybackups.html
> Francesco> 
> Francesco> Use /dev/afd0 instead of /dev/fd0 (i.e. the LS-120 instead of the floppy
> Francesco> drive).
> Francesco> 
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