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- From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
- Subject: Re: Block device drivers in DOS.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.164403.3440@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de
- Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
- References: <1992Dec7.154025.82060@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:44:03 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Dec7.154025.82060@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> etl1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (EMIL THOMAS LERCH) writes:
- >This may be a stupid question, but I have been told that any question worth
- >asking isn't stupid, and I haven't seen it in the FAQs, so here goes.
- I think it's really worth being asked, especially as i know an answer :-)
-
- > I have
- >two machines that I would like to use a program such as Fastlynx to create a
- >peer to peer network through a serial or parallel port (I'd rather the
- >paralell but I can't seem to get that to work with OS/2, DOS works fine). To
- >do this I have to create more drive letters, which is exactly what OS/2 won't
- >let me do in a virtual DOS session. Is there a way around this limitation, or
- >must I boot plain DOS to do this (which would make it worthless)?
- The work around is a `native' DOS session booted into an OS/2 VDM.
- Like `Dos from drive A' in your `command prompts' folder. You can make
- an image of that disk (vmboot, if i remember right) and boot from that
- image. You'll probably want to take a 720K disk for that purpose, as
- an image of the whole disk is made.
-
- > I figured
- >I'd see it discussed sometime, since at least to me this seems like a fairly
- >big limitation, but I haven't, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
- Some further remarks: be sure to copy fsfilter.sys to that disk to
- access the underlying OS/2 disk(s) and install it on that disk's
- config.sys; switch IRQ_DURING_IO *OFF* (you will run into bad old
- reentrancy problems, otherwise); you may have a look at the help for
- vmdisk for further help.
-
- I have a novell lite server (with ARCnet hardware) installed that way,
- and it run's quite smoothly... :-)
- --
- - Thomas
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