Qnx4 boot floppy to hardrive

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Hi,

I need to put a minimal QNX 4.X system that
run from a floppy on a hard drive.
This floppy does not have any IDE driver

Today i received another system that run
QNX4.X from a hard drive.

Is it possible with the help of the second
system to make the first run from hardrive ?

Thanks for your help

2

copy all the files from the floppy to the blank hard drive.
then copy the boot image from your qnx hard drive to the blank hard drive.

assuming you are running off the qnx hard drive, the blank drive is mounted
as /hd1 and floppy is mounted as /fd…

from the /fd directory type "pax -rwv * .* /hd1
cp /.boot /hd1


John

“Yasmine” <y.leroux@nospam.actris.com> wrote in message
news:a96jrh$eag$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi,

I need to put a minimal QNX 4.X system that
run from a floppy on a hard drive.
This floppy does not have any IDE driver

Today i received another system that run
QNX4.X from a hard drive.

Is it possible with the help of the second
system to make the first run from hardrive ?

Thanks for your help

3

Also, if you require licenses and you have “old style” (/etc/licenses)
licenses, then they must be installed seperately. If the old style
licenses are just copied they won’t work. Make sure you delete the
ones that were copied first, then use teh license utility to install
the correct licenses.

I.E.
license <source_dir> <target_dir>
or
license /etc/licenses /hd1/etc/licenses

Also, the target directory must already exist.


John Love <john@tolltex.com> wrote:
JL > copy all the files from the floppy to the blank hard drive.
JL > then copy the boot image from your qnx hard drive to the blank hard drive.

JL > assuming you are running off the qnx hard drive, the blank drive is mounted
JL > as /hd1 and floppy is mounted as /fd…

JL > from the /fd directory type "pax -rwv * .* /hd1
JL > cp /.boot /hd1


JL > “Yasmine” <y.leroux@nospam.actris.com> wrote in message
JL > news:a96jrh$eag$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hi,

I need to put a minimal QNX 4.X system that
run from a floppy on a hard drive.
This floppy does not have any IDE driver

Today i received another system that run
QNX4.X from a hard drive.

Is it possible with the help of the second
system to make the first run from hardrive ?

Thanks for your help