Floppy Disks (Is anyone out there?)

Floppy Disks (Is anyone out there?)

[JD Fenech]

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.

-- 
A scientist claims in court that the reason he ran a red light is that,
due to his speed, the color was blueshifted till it appeared green.
Needless to say, the charges of running the red light were dropped and
he lost his license for speeding excessively.

Re: Floppy Disks (Is anyone out there?)

[John R. Sowden]

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

Re: Floppy Disks (Is anyone out there?)

[Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)]

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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