From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>
To: dosemu <linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Drives directory
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:05:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46757803.8080100@my.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3d607cc0706170851k5ea0ca37qecd8ff0876e81624@mail.gmail.com>
Bart Oldeman wrote:
> CONFIG.SYS cannot see drive Z: yet (a DOS limitation: DOS just
> assigns C:, D:, etc) so it temporarily uses drive D: instead to
> access the relevant files (ems.sys, lredir.exe, etc). Then the
> lredir command is used in config.sys and autoexec.bat to set
> the drives to what you see after starting dosemu. D: is set to
> $HOME because it was there in 1.2.x too.
Thanks.. this explains a lot. BTW my DOS knowledge must be getting
rusty. I always thought the LASTDRIVE=Z statement in CONFIG.SYS
was supposed to take care of that. But, yes, I tried it now and it
doesn't. Must read up on it..
Regards, Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-17 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-17 11:51 Drives directory Jan Willem Stumpel
2007-06-17 15:51 ` Bart Oldeman
2007-06-17 18:05 ` Jan Willem Stumpel [this message]
2007-06-18 13:57 ` Some further questions about booting Jan Willem Stumpel
2007-06-23 21:34 ` Bart Oldeman
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