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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: I have an interesting question...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.181824.2226@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:18:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.061007.18888@cuug.ab.ca> jeremiah@cuug.ab.ca (Jerry Jeremiah 290-8941) writes:
- >I want to know if, while we can mount dos volumes, can we mount disks
- >that have been stacked with Stacker or DoubleSpaced with MSDOS 6.0?
- >
- >(btw, the MSDOS 6.0 is a beta version and is not out until next year)
- >
- >>>Jerry
-
- There was a recent success story on this, and I'll try to post how to do
- it from memory
-
- (DISCLAIMER: I have never tried this and do not run stacker. I suspect
- this whole kludge could lead to you losing all of your data if something
- goes wrong: THIS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK)
-
- now that my butt is covered, lets try this.
-
- get the dos emulator: it comes with SLS and other wise is in the ALPHA
- section of the Linux archives (btw, this emulator is actually PRE alpha)
-
- for DOS 5.0 (and 6.0? I don't know, but probably) and DR-DOS 6.0 find the lines
-
- printf("general protection\n");
- error=4;
-
- and change 4 to 0. this will keep some skull duggery from Microshaft from
- crashing the emulator on startup (no flames please. Microsoft's history
- of providing these wonderful services in their OS's is well documented.
- ask the FTC.)
-
- now compile the emulator and set it up per its accompanying instructions.
-
- with a dos system disk in the drive, run
-
- dos a > errors.log
-
- change directories to c: you should see LINUX.EXE which you should
- run. This will turn your dos partition (which should be mounted when
- you start to /usr/dos) to a d: drive.
-
- if you change there you should see all of your uncompressed files, including
- STACKER.COM (or whatever it is called) and the big file that is really
- your stacker volume. run stacker.com.
-
- this should do it. again a disclaimer: i have neither tried this nor
- think its a particularly good idea. if you must go where angels fear to
- tread then at least try it on some sort of test partition first. the
- emulator is *really* flakey and stacker is magical. flakey magic is dangerous!
-
-
- good luck,
- jem.
-
-
-
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