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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
- Message-ID: <19921117.060757.716@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 05:40:39 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: How to access HPFS drive after floppy boot ??
- Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
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- X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
- References: <1992Nov17.043542.17311@trl.oz.au>
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- In <1992Nov17.043542.17311@trl.oz.au> Steve Madden writes:
- >Hi there,
- > after receiving and installing TCPIP v1.2 which does not work
- >under 2.0, I duly removed it, but not as the manual suggested :-( I then
- >tried to instal version 1.2.1, but it does'nt have the ethernet drivers
- >on the disc yet, and so I get errors about being unable to find
- >macwd.dat or wahtever. I press enter, and one of the TCPIP drivers
- >loads, and the machine then hangs. If I boot from a floppy, I can't
- >acess my HPFS partition, and so I cant edit my config.sys file to stop
- >the TCPIP stuff being loaded. Anyone out there able to tell me what I
- >have to do to get at my config.sys ? (if I do a 'dir' after booting from
- >floppy, I get "incorrect internal file identifier") Am I destined for a
- >complete re-install or is there some way out ??
-
- Make sure your BOOT Disk has the file HPFS.IFS on it and your CONFIG.SYS has
- the following statement:
-
- IFS=HPFS.IFS
-