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In article <1993Jan5.154638.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>,
11srust@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Scott A. Rust) says:
>
>        I'm having a problem copying DOS 5.0 setup disks from their original
>5.25" HD disks to 3.5" HD disks. The computer I'm installing the program into
>only handles 3.5. Using diskcopy doesn't work as the computer says the dirves
>or formats are incompatible. Using copy *.* doesn't work because it doesn't
>copy the entire disk. Suggestions on what I can use here?
>
>                Thanks.
>
>                        Scott Rust
>
There is a shareware program called copyqm that will allow you
to copy between formats. I think it is called copyq302 and is
located in pub/msdos/drvutil(?). Works real well. If you
can't find it I will dig out the location for you.

Harold
harvey@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu

11srust@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Scott A. Rust) writes:

>	I'm having a problem copying DOS 5.0 setup disks from their original
>5.25" HD disks to 3.5" HD disks. The computer I'm installing the program into
>only handles 3.5. Using diskcopy doesn't work as the computer says the dirves
>or formats are incompatible. Using copy *.* doesn't work because it doesn't
>copy the entire disk. Suggestions on what I can use here?

I'm assuming that this is a DOS *upgrade* and not a new installation.

If so, the disks have no files with any special attributes (hidden, system,
read-only).  (I just checked both my 3-1/2" and 5-1/4" absolute masters
just to be sure.)  

In fact, most of our several thousand users upgraded their systems from
a NetWare server directory I created by using the normal DOS COPY
command to copy the files from the disks.  (and yes, this was done with
Microsoft approval.  We purchased all the necessary licenses.)  There 
should be no reason why the COPY command won't copy all the files.

I suspect that your problem is not a missing file but the volume serial
numbers.  A 3-1/2" HD diskette can obviously hold the entire contents
of a 5-1/4" disk, so you should be able to copy the disks with the COPY
command (no subdirectories exist, so XCOPY isn't needed), then make
sure that each target disk is assigned the volume label of the disk
from which it was copied...and watch the spaces.  The volume labels
are probably of the form:

  DISK      1

Note all the embedded spaces.  Check each disk as you copy it and
use the LABEL command to write the appropriate label to your 3-1/2" disk.

Joe Morris / MITRE

In article <jcmorris.726327474@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>I suspect that your problem is not a missing file but the volume serial
>numbers.  A 3-1/2" HD diskette can obviously hold the entire contents
>of a 5-1/4" disk, so you should be able to copy the disks with the COPY
>command (no subdirectories exist, so XCOPY isn't needed), then make
>sure that each target disk is assigned the volume label of the disk
>from which it was copied...and watch the spaces.  The volume labels
>are probably of the form:
>
>  DISK      1
>
>Note all the embedded spaces.  Check each disk as you copy it and
>use the LABEL command to write the appropriate label to your 3-1/2" disk.

This only works if the 3.5" disks have less than 1.2m of files.

Some product distributions are different for 3.5 & 5.25, including
the index files which says which volume to find which files on,
so copying like this does not always work.  (If you're going
from 3.5 to 5.25 -- the other way around should not be a problem.)

Whether it works for the DOS 5.0 upgrade I have no idea.


		-Richard Hartman
		hartman@ulogic.COM

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Never speak in absolutes.  It will always lead to trouble.

It works with the DR-DOS 6.0 installation disks.

Bruce (no more MS-DOG) Bathurst

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