Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:22:46 +1200 (NZST)
From: Eric Gillespie <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT net DOT nz>
To: "Mark  F.  Warchol" <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
cc: OpenDOS AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Help needed with invalaid partition table
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On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Mark  F.  Warchol wrote:

vi> then copy DOS to new partition.  This can be done if you are using
vi> the Install Disks (a 5 disk set) starting from the boot floppy of the
vi> set - it's pretty much a simple job of inserting disk in drive, and
vi> either rebooting or running setup from the drive. 

::  *I haven't done this at all, what I did was to have the Drdos#702 already
::on the "new" master drive but only copied from the prior master drive, I
::didn't run set-up at all.

Did you "SYS" the destination disk first?

::  *I don't have the disk set just the installed directory and or the large
::install program from the net.
::  *Is the next step at this point to just run the drl702.exe and let install
::do it thing and then when I next reboot it will all be there?

Errrr, not quite - the DRL702.EXE file contains 3 or five files that might
need to be written to floppies using rawrite or DISKCOPY as follows:

C:\TEMP>drl702
PKZip SFX...checking files (this is just a general idea...)
Extracting DISK001.144   Complete
Extracting DISK002.144   Complete
Extracting DISK003.144   Complete
C:\TEMP>dir /w
disk001.144    disk002.144    disk003.144   drl702.exe
C:\TEMP>diskcopy disk001.144 a:
Insert the DESTINATION disk in drive A:
and press a key to continue...

Copying 80 tracks, 18 sectors per track, 2 side(s)
Reading from the source file
Writing to the disk
C:\TEMP>

... and do the same for the other image files to separate floppies.
Of course you will have the partition size restraints to worry about.
Hope this helps...again, if I'm wrong, someone *puhleez* correct me.

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