Win4Lin User's Guide
About Personal Session Configurations
-- Drives & Filesystems View
Use the Personal Win4Lin Session Configuration
window to view, modify, or create an
environment in which DOS and Windows sessions are to run.
For more information about the general subject of DOS or Windows environment
configurations and managing them, see
About Personal Win4Lin Session Configurations.
Drives & Filesystem View
Use this view of the Personal Win4Lin Session Configuration window to:
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View
the list of drives and volumes available in this configuration
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Change
the properties for a volume attached to a drive letter
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Attach
a volume to a drive letter
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Detach
a volume from a drive letter
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Specify whether to start your session on a
personal drive
Viewing the List of Drives
The Drives & Filesystem view
displays the complete list of drive letters and corresponding volumes
available to your DOS or Windows
sessions started with this configuration. The volume is described by the
information in the Type and Volume columns.
There are
four types of volumes:
- Linux
- Refers to a Linux directory, which can be accessed as the root of
this drive by DOS and Windows applications. This directory is specified
in the Volume column.
- DOS
- Refers to one of the following types of DOS volumes:
- Native DOS volume
- A physical DOS partition on the fixed disk that only DOS and Windows
applications know about and can access.
Linux applications normally cannot access native DOS volumes.
The volume column identifies such a drive as Native Drive.
- Virtual DOS volume
- A Linux file that is formatted as a complete DOS
file system. Only Win4Lin sessions can access the files
on this volume. The volume column lists the token name that identifies
this Linux file. (To display the actual Linux file name associated with
a particular token, use the System-Wide Win4Lin Administration
category and select the DOS Drive view from the
Device Definition dialog box.)
- CD
- A physical CD-ROM device.
- FLOPPY
- A physical floppy drive.
Floppy drives cannot be detached or configured in any way in the
Personal Session Configuration.
Refer to the Win4Lin User's Guide or Release Notes
for information about how to configure floppy disk access.
Changing the Properties of a Volume
Take the following actions:
- Select a drive by clicking on the appropriate line in the list.
- Click on the Properties button.
The Drive Properties window appears. Use the Help
button in that window for further instructions.
Attaching a Volume to a DOS Drive Letter
Take the following action
to attach a new volume to a specific DOS drive
letter:
- Click on the Add button.
The Drive Properties
window appears. Use the Help button in that window for
further instructions.
Detaching a Volume from a DOS Drive Letter
Take the following actions:
- Select the volume you want to detach by clicking
on the appropriate line in the list.
- Click on the Detach button.
Specifying the initial drive
When your DOS or Windows session starts, the initial drive and directory
are determined by the option Start on personal drive.
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If this option is set, your session will start with the initial
directory configured to be at the root of your personal drive.
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If this option is not set, your session will start with the
initial directory configured to be the same as your current Linux directory
at the time you start the session. The drive chosen will be the
Linux drive
in your configuration set up to provide access to this directory.
If there is no drive in your configuration that provides access to the
current Linux directory, your session will fail to start.