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One more time with attachments this
time.
Ian
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: How To Duplicate VTS Install Disks
In a pinch, try these
attached files (zipped). It is a DOS program called "HD Copy" that
duplicates floppy disks track for track. It doesn't care about what format
the disk has or hasn't. I have been successfully using this program to
copy our VTS Install disks for the last two years.
Note that if you create a new copy of
VTS install disks, that set of disks requires a serial number. you can
obtain a serial number from Barney Lucas at Global McKinney. The old set
of install disks should be sent to Global McKinney for retirement. Every
set of VTS install disks (or GEMS CD) is a license agreements.
Every copy that a customer has, is a separate license agreement that generates
billing for multiple software maintenance fees, even if they are only using
one.
If you are on a customer site or
dealer site and discover multiple install disk sets or CD's, please send them
back to Global McKinney, so we can remove that serial number from existence and
maintain one serial number per customer site.
Thanks
Ian
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:47
PM
Subject: How To Duplicate VTS Install
Disks
We used to use DOS and Windows DISKCOPY to duplicate VTS
disks but it seems that these have become too fussy. The Windows Copy
Disk (right click on the floppy drive in the explorer) can't read a Unix
source disk and the DOS box DISKCOPY complains that a pre-formatted target
diskette is incompatible. So we now need to do the copies on a Unix
system.
There is a ddiskcopy utility floating around and you can use that if
it's installed (just try running it). Otherwise, here's how to do the
deed using the trusty dd utility.
(1) First, you need to copy the source disk image to a file.
You can make as many copies as you want from a single image so name and place
it according to your needs. Assuming that you will be finished in one
session, I would recommend putting it in /tmp/mydisk1 . Use disk
numbers to keep track of multiple disk images. The command for this is:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/mydisk1
(2) Second, copy the image to as many blank disks as you need.
For each one the command is:
dd if=/tmp/mydisk1 of=/dev/fd0
(3) (Optional) Verify the copy. The VTS install disks are
prepared using tar so you can verify the copy using:
tar tvf /dev/fd0
This reads the disk and lists the contents. You don't need to wait
until the bitter end so if it's listing files and not giving errors you can
abort this using CTRL-C.
(4) Clean up. If you don't need to keep your disk image files
around, delete them using:
rm /tmp/mydisk1
...and that's it.
Of course licensing issues are another matter. :-)
Guy
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