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From: Bryan Stillwell <bryan@bokeoa.com>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: files as harddrives?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:59:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030722165948.GC17887@bokeoa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F1D6842.6080100@aknet.ru>

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:37:22PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>Bryan Stillwell wrote:
>>It may be easier to think of it as a hard drive image 
>>(actually compact flash image) with the boot sector and
>>partition information at the front of the file.
>See "man mkfatimage16" - it is exactly what you need.

That would work if I just wanted to access the files under dosemu, but
this is a verification test and I have to come as close as possible to
simulate what someone else will be using on a real Windows/DOS system.

As it works right now, they put a compact flash card into a usb card
reader and then run one of the ltools utilities (ldirdos.exe) to read
and copy files off of the ext2 filesystem on the compact flash to the
hard drive.

AFAICT, dosemu used to support this behaviour with the wholedisk option
on older versions, but that functionality has been removed in favour of
just accessing partitions directly.

Bryan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-22 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-22 16:37 files as harddrives? Stas Sergeev
2003-07-22 16:59 ` Bryan Stillwell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-05  3:26 Stas Sergeev
2003-07-23 18:17 Stas Sergeev
2003-08-04 22:02 ` Bryan Stillwell
2003-07-21 21:40 Bryan Stillwell
2003-07-22  9:01 ` Ged Haywood
2003-07-22 16:10   ` Bryan Stillwell
2003-07-22 16:54     ` Ged Haywood

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