1.44 drives on i386
Pim Zandbergen
pim at cti-software.nl
Sat Dec 9 05:15:36 AEST 1989
pcg at aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>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...:
[ formula how to do this deleted ]
OK, and now the other way around. I have a 1.44 MB boot floppy
and want to produce a 1.2 MB boot floppy. I imagined this would work
on a system with a 1.2 MB boot drive and a secondary 1.44 MB drive:
format /dev/rdsk/f0q15dt
dd if=/etc/fboot of=/dev/dsk/f0q15dt
mkfs /dev/dsk/f0q15d 2370:144 1 32
labelit /dev/dsk/f0q15d instal flop
mkdir /a /b
mount /dev/dsk/f0q15d /a
mount -r /dev/dsk/f1q18d /b
cd /b
find . -print | cpio -pdmuav /a
This boot diskette will boot, display copyright messages,
but then complains with:
FD drv 0, blk 1581: Sector not found
NOTICE: page read error on floppy disk 0, partition 2
So, what went wrong?
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