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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1184 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5777 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1575 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!bnr.co.uk!bnrgate!bmerh85!bmerha64.bnr.ca!mlord From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: A case for QIC-80 Date: 8 Oct 1993 13:57:07 GMT Organization: BNR Ottawa, Canada Lines: 20 Message-ID: <293rjj$q73@bmerha64.bnr.ca> References: <kaxiras.749938489@cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerha43.bnr.ca Keywords: QIC-80 In article <kaxiras.749938489@cs.wisc.edu> kaxiras@falcons.cs.wisc.edu writes: > >Just write up something that can be used to install BSD -and other >software -from QIC-80 minicatridges. Interestingly enough, the software to do this already exists! But nobody has yet to apply it to this scenario in a big way. There exists an item of DOS software that can read/write a block disk partition as if it were one big DOS file, so all that would need to be done is for someone to do a full BSD install, and then boot DOS from floppy and backup the BSD drive/partition to tape using any convenient DOS tape backup program. On the receiving end, the tape can be read back and the entire BSD filesystem restored in one go. No frills, no install options, but it would work. -- mlord@bnr.ca Mark Lord BNR Ottawa,Canada 613-763-7482