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- From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: How to solve write protection faults in VDM's?
- Message-ID: <400@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:47:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.201748.10291@cs.uoregon.edu> <1992Nov19.015043.27715@wam.umd.edu>
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- Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany
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- In article <1992Nov19.015043.27715@wam.umd.edu>,
- adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
-
- >[santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee) writes:]
-
- >>(1) I make an image from a DOS disk in drive A: (without all
- >> that FSFILTER stuff because I don't need access to the HPFS
- >> partition) and stick it on my FAT partition D:.
- >>
- >
- >You DO need the FSFILTER.SYS whether you do or don't use HPFS. Install it
- >in the CONFIG.SYS file in the bootable image and all will be well.
-
- And you need to close the disk image to be able to write to the physical
- diskette. FSACCESS A: accesses A: via FSFILTER.SYS and OS/2. To get
- exclusive access to A: (to make a system disk, for example), use
- FSACCESS !A: then.
-
- Horst
-