They are still looking for the install media. They should have it, but the company that did the turnkey setup and initial support may have kept it or it may have been lost.

I think it does have a floppy and your solution sounds good and makes sense to me. I think in terms of DOS, it sounds like the floppy is kind of doing what the old dos format c:/s command did? Then, I am just copying files?

I am sure I am over simplifying, if not totally wrong above, but it at least now I know one way to do it.

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I only have one disk, but I will put another in, SCSI or IDE or USB as needed.

Right now, I am afraid my Application Software stops me from upgrading. I do not really understand it, but they told me the copy protection in it was tied to the compiler and the compiler to my version of Unix and I would not be able to simply install the software on another machine/hd. That really does not make sense to me, but that is what I understood them to say.

Though it has been upgraded several times, last about 10 or more years ago, our original license is over 20 years old. A complete new system for us is over $20k, probably over $30k, that is why I need to backup what I have.

There are plenty of E800 servers out there and I have already moved this HD once to a new server, right now my critical link is the HD, O/S and APP. (I have the data backed up.)

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Last part first. Using Open Systems Inc. Accounting Software for Electric Motor Shops. I think it is a standard commercial accounting package they modify for specific industries, but could say that 100%.

My Data is in a directory off the root called /u. The application is there as well, just not sure if 100% is there, but I can find where all its parts are if needed. I have backed up the /u directory to a windows box using ftp.

Here is the Divvy command without parameters. Let me know if you need it with the specific HD parameter (I am afraid to start typing in parameters for fear of messing up something, but I will if I need to do so)

# divvy
+-------------------+------------+--------+---+-------------+------------+
| Name | Type | New FS | # | First Block | Last Block |
+-------------------+------------+--------+---+-------------+------------+
| boot | EAFS | no | 0 | 0| 15359|
| swap | NON FS | no | 1 | 15360| 277503|
| root | HTFS | no | 2 | 277504| 1534975|
| u | HTFS | no | 3 | 1534976| 5723165|
| u1 | HTFS | no | 4 | 5723166| 8867869|
| | NOT USED | no | 5 | -| -|
| recover | NON FS | no | 6 | 8867870| 8867879|
| hd0a | WHOLE DISK | no | 7 | 0| 8875880|
+-------------------+------------+--------+---+-------------+------------+
8867880 1K blocks for divisions, 8001 1K blocks reserved for the system