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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Tapes

2005-03-15 by Laurent Lemaire

Hi Brian,

To format a HD on a rev6.03 CMI 3, you need a program to format and
partition it which is not delivered in standard. Even though you would
have a formatted rev6.03 HD, you would need to boot on a floppy to
restore the tapes into the /k* partitions...

Hope it helps.

      Laurent.

On 15 mars 05, at 21:10, brian_ronn wrote:

>
>  Hi
>
>  If I backup /k0, /k1 and /k2 onto 3 tapes from my CMI III OS6.03,
>  will I then be able to restore these partitions from the tapes on a
>  completely new and blank internal harddrive if my old internal drive
>  should fail? Or do I need system floppies to boot from before
>  restoring from the tapes?
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Brian
>  Denmark
>

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