From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Subject: Re: I have an interesting question... Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:18:24 GMT
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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