Re: Floppy Disks (Is anyone out there?)

["Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk>]

Hi there,
	Thinking about your problem I just tried this, and it seemed to work

In Linux

Copy contents of disk1 to /tmp/disk1
Copy contents of disk2 to /tmp/disk2
Copy contents of disk3 to /tmp/disk3
Copy contents of disk4 to /tmp/disk4

then cd /tmp

ln -s disk1 a

Now in DOS do
lredir a: linux\fs/tmp/a

start install in DOS, when prompted for disk change do the following in Linux

rm a
ln -s disk2 a

back in DOS press OK, or whatever to signal disk has changed

and repeat until done

Hope that helps,


Andrew


==================== example =======================
### Linux
cd /tmp 
mkdir disk1 disk2
echo hello > disk1/hello.txt
echo there > disk2/there.txt
ln -s disk1 a

### DOS
C:\>lredir a: linux\fs/tmp/a
A: = LINUX\FS/TMP/A  attrib = READ/WRITE

C:\>dir a:
 Volume in drive A is /tmp/a
 Directory of A:\

HELLO    TXT             6  04-06-08  7:45p
         1 file(s)              6 bytes
         0 dir(s)   2,147,450,880 bytes free

### Linux 
cd /tmp && rm a ; ln -s disk2 a

### DOS
C:\>dir a:
 Volume in drive A is /tmp/a

 Directory of A:\

THERE    TXT             6  04-06-08  7:46p
         1 file(s)              6 bytes
         0 dir(s)   2,147,450,880 bytes free











On Sunday 06 April 2008 17:51, John R. Sowden wrote:
> 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
>
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