Re: Apple Lisa SCO Xenix boot floppy copy

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"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.