Rod Pemberton wrote:
> "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Does anyone know of a DOS/Win98 utility to "mount" a filesystem
>>> image (loopback?) or cause the image to be accessed as if it is a
>>> drive under DOS (like a ramdisk)?
>>>
>>> If I use the Windows ****t of Linux's mkdosfs to create, say a FAT16
>>> filesystem image (not a partition),
>>> http://www.mager.org/mkdosfs/
>>>
>>> or, if I use rawread.exe or partcopy (John Fine) to create a FAT12
>>> filesystem image .img from a floppy, is there a utility or .sys
>>> driver to make that file/filesystem image/disk image a drive
>>> (E:,F:,G:, etc.) in the DOS or Win98 drive chain?
>>>
>>> Or, perhaps, a ****t of MTOOLS for DOS or Win98?
>>>
>>> I found a partially implemented DOS ****t (insufficient) of MTOOLS
>>> here: http://www.frontiernet.net/~fys/mtools.htm
>>>
>>> I did locate a program called DiskImg for WinNT...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Robert Riebisch replied on comp.os.msdos.programmer that I should try
>> SHSUCDX. While the SHSUCDX package is definately the right track, I
>> think the SHSUFDRV package (which I was unaware of) is actually what
>> I wanted: http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsufdrv/index.html
>>
>>
>
> It appears that SHSURDRV and SHSUFDRV are limited. They are good for
> copying files off existing images or using the image as a ramdisk,
> but there is no way to save an image after copying files to it...!?!?
> In addition to a bunch of FAT12 boot disk images, I tried them
> against a FAT12,FAT16, and FAT32 image made by Windows ****t of
> mkdosfs. They work with FAT12 images. They don't recognize the 2nd
> FAT of the FAT16 images, but otherwise work. They fail on the FAT32
> images... Also, they appear to only emulate the drive not the disk
> since Format and Fdisk don't recognize the drive (which is needed for
> what I'm need to do.). I guess I need a .SYS driver or a DOS ****t of
> Linux MTOOLS. In the mean time, I'm looking at the PD fhard package
> from simtel which has a driver to make a bunch of 360k floppies into
> a 5Mb harddisk. (maybe...)
I'll try make an update of my FAT module and test suite during
Thanksgiving.
If you only need to test your stuff, you're free to use mine. It can be
very
easily leveraged for just that purpose as the test suite does work with
FAT12/16/32 disk images and extended partitions and everything (except
long
filenames, hehe :). Just wait a little.
Alex
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