From: "John R. Sowden" <jsowden@americansentry.net>
Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Floppy Disks (Is anyone out there?)
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:30:44 +0000 (UTC)
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:51:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F8FFAC.7000207@americansentry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F41D4F.3040201@iowatelecom.net>
JD Fenech wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Can someone at least reply? If noone actually knows anything, a few
> responses would be comforting. If anyone has any ideas on how I can
> switch disk images when I need to, that would be great.
>
Just had to respond to your plea. I have the same problem when I send
out a request for help and get no response. Anyway, back in the
eighties, the BIOS was changed to allow for computers with only one
floppy to fake switching to a non-existent b: drive. My suggestion
to you is to set your boot program (grub, etc.) to allow for a true DOS
boot (Freedos/4dos in my case) and read in your floppies (sounds like a
program install). Then access the data from Linux, if that's your
choice. Just another way of looking at the problem.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-05 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 23:57 Floppy Disks (Is anyone out there?) JD Fenech
2008-04-05 10:30 ` John R. Sowden [this message]
2008-04-06 18:59 ` Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)
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