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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copying/Restoring UNIX O/S Post 302956555 by MadeInGermany on Thursday 1st of October 2015 05:05:39 AM
Old 10-01-2015
A bootable disk contains an OS-specific boot code. It is not a regular file.
Also there is partitioning information on the disk, and this is not a regular file either.
The frame where files are stored in is called a filesystem. Microsoft DOS only understands FAT filesystem, Windows understands FAT and NTFS filesystem. But SCO-Unix certainly uses a different file system. Linux understands many filesystem types, maybe the one from SCO-Unix.
You all-files backup will miss the boot code, the partitioning information, the filesystem.
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The BIOS on an X86 PC requires the disk to have an MBR, master boot record. This can contain the boot code, or contains code to find another boot code block (that in turn can find another boot code).
My knowledge ends here. Look at Wikipedia. Hope that other guys here know more...
 

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INTRO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  INTRO(1)

NAME
intro -- introduction to general commands (tools and utilities) DESCRIPTION
Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment. Some of the commands included in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands. All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error. Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using exit codes as defined in sysexits(3), while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1). SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), intro(2), intro(3), sysexits(3), intro(4), intro(5), intro(6), intro(7), security(7), intro(8), intro(9) Tutorials in the UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents. HISTORY
The intro manual page appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
October 21, 2001 BSD
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