How to make a backup of kickstart 1.2 and 1.3 disks?

[AmigaEd]

Greetings Amigans,

After many years I have just dug out my old A1000 and it seems to work fine.

I thought it might be a good idea to back up some of the old floppy disks before they crash. First I bought some new ds/dd disks (hard to find). I made out o.k. making back-ups of the workbench disks, but I couldn't quite remember how to make a back-up of a kickstart disk.

Could someone please tell me how to make a copy of the kickstart disk or perhaps point me to a site with such information.

Thank you,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

I tried this approach, of using Duplicate form the WB, but it doesn't seem to work.
I seem to remember there being some simple trick to copying the kickstart disk, but I just can't quite remember what it is.

AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Hello,
I'm still struggling with this.

I've aquired the xcopy.adf. I compressed the file and have transfered the xcopy.lzh over to the A1000 from my PC using Wartrans.

I try to decompress the xcopy.lzh to the ram disk and it seems to run out of memory. I have a 2meg Microbotics Starboard attached, so I am surprised to find that the ram disk tops out at +512K.

So my question is, what is the best way to get the adf's extracted on to a1000 so that I can use adfblitzer or something similar to put these images back on to a floppy?

Thank you,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

DethKnight,

I looked at the Eddy Carroll site and that started to bring back some of what I have forgotten about Amigas.

I'm not quite sure if this idea of altering the mountlist entry will work for the ram: device as it is sort of sized on demand.

I can't quite remember what the RAD: device was. Was that another variation on the RAM: device?