installing ISC Unix from DOS DISKCOPY backups

[James P. H. Fuller]

In <348 at alderan.uucp> chris at alderan.uucp (Christoph Splittgerber) writes:

>>Yes it would be nice if they did that but until they do I write protect the
>>install diskette as soon as i receive it and make a copy (3 or 4) with dd to
>>do the install with. They have improved their install methods with each
>..
>
>The problem here is, if you first install the system you don't have dd(1M)
>running to do the backup and the MESS-DOS diskcopy does not work with the
>ISC-boot disk :-(

    It worked just fine when I installed ISC r.2.2.  I never used any of my
ISC distribution disks for anything except to make backups using DOS DISKCOPY,
and then installed from the copies -- boot disk and all.

                                                  James P. H. Fuller
                                                  jim%crom2 at nstar.rn.com