In article <3F180149.5F703AED@tkg.ca> Mike Brown <mike@tkg.ca> writes:
$I see that RecoverEdge supports 1.6 MB floppy format for its boot/root
$diskettes, you may be able to try that with the SCO boot/root. In general
$I have been much happier with the BackupEdge product for bare metal
$restores as compared to the SCO boot/root functionality.

I had to use the higher-capacity format option in RecoverEdge
on a new 5.0.7 Compaq system; nothing RecoverEdge could do would
shrink the kernel enough to fit on a 1.44 MB floppy.

I've never looked at the SCO boot/root stuff on 5.0.7 so I
have no idea if they've enhanced it to account for higher-capacity
floppies (other than 2.88 MB). Hopefully they have, as it may be
a solution to your problem.

I'd like to echo what Mike said - RecoverEdge is a much better
way of making emergency diskettes than mkdev fd is. I used to use
Cactus Airbag (hmm, wouldn't a cactus puncture an airbag? :-) on
one machine a few years ago and would also prefer it to mkdev fd.
BackupEdge and Cactus Lone-Tar are also much better ways of doing
backups than tar or cpio are.
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