Re: Apple Lisa SCO Xenix boot floppy copy

["Giorgio Ungarelli" <giorgio@*no_spam*ungarelli.net>]

The Lisa 2 has only one floppy disk.

In the meantime, my knowledge of Xenix has somewhat improved. Copying all
the files from the floppy disk to the hard disk is not a problem (mount, cp,
umount), and copying them to another floppy from the hard disk is also not a
problem, but how do you make this new floppy disk bootable?

Thanks,

Giorgio

"Dosius" <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> "Giorgio Ungarelli" <giorgio@*no_spam*ungarelli.net> wrote in message
news:<3e006ef0$1_1@news.bluewin.ch>...
> > I see some Apple Lisa questions on this newsgroup from time to time, so
here
> > goes...
> >
> > I have a Lisa 2/10 on which I have just installed SCO Xenix 3.0 (and the
> > Xenix Development System, and the Xenix Text Processing System) from the
> > original floppy disks.  My Unix knowledge is currently near zero but I
want
> > to improve it, thus the reason for installing the above.
> >
> > Q: How do I copy the Apple Lisa SCO Xenix 3.0 Boot Floppy, to make a
backup,
> > just in case (copy not just the files but the bootstrap as well -
something
> > like a "diskcopy" command")?
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> >
> > Giorgio
> >
> > PS. If there is another newsgroup on which this post should go, please
let
> > me know.
>
> If it's anything like *x and you have 2 floppy drives, there might be
> a way to use cp to copy from your first disk to your second (since all
> block devices can be accessed as character devices).  For some
> variants this would be "cp /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1" - not sure what it would
> be for you.  I also don't know if that model has 2 drives (I think
> some models did?)
>
> HTH, because I don't know much about the Lisa. :}  Actually, the Lisa
> is a "Mac XL", so... :�
>
> -uso.