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- From: root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: dos emulator: increasing the drive C size ..how?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.000939.7569@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 00:09:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.171220.1881@ifi.unizh.ch>, amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch
- (Guindehi Amir) writes:
- |> You can start .exe files from floppy !! There they work ! After running
- |> fdisk, you must delete the old C partition and make a new one with the size
- |> you
- |> want. Don't worry, it is'nt the real partition you manipulate ! After that
- |> your hdimage file will grow if you but more and more on drive c.
- |
-
- let me get this straight,.. you're saying that the $WHEREAMI/hdimage
- dynamically grows in size in accordance with how much you put on it?
-
- ie
- fdisking a hdimage to say 8 meg while the hdimage = say 500k
- will leave a 550k file which grows in linux to a maximum of 8meg (yes?)
- but under the dos emulator it will *look* like 8 meg even if hdimage is
- only 1 meg in size (yes?) If so, does hdimage also shrink in size if
- you remove data from it?
-
- if it does all of the above, I'll be well impressed (incidentally,
- i'll have a shot with msdos(6)beta next week when i get a bit of
- free time that should be fun 8-)..
-
- BTW.. I tried compiling dosemu4.0 under 2.3.2 snapshot 921128,...
- it wouldn't work,.. I assume that others have had it working on 2.3.3?
-
- Phil
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