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- From: santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: VDM's: Still having problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.053023.13395@cs.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 05:30:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov23.053023.13395
- Sender: news@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner)
- Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
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- 'Lo all,
-
- Awhile ago I posted a request on how to get DOS VDM's working
- so they will not give me general write failure's when I
- attempt to write to the physical drive where the image
- file exists. Thanks to all those who responded telling
- me I *had* to include the FSFILTER in my config.sys.
-
- But I'm still having problems.
-
- I included the line DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS on the disk that
- I wanted to make an image out of and pathed all the
- other *.SYS files (e.g. EMM386, HIMEM, etc) to the OS/2
- equiv's in OS2/MDOS. Only now, when I try to release the
- image via FSACCESS A:, my machine locks up. Here's my
- line of reasoning:
-
- (1) I make the image file and boot from it. From the
- image file I type: FSACCESS A: and get a bad command
- error because it isn't pathed. Okay, so:
-
- (2) I change to the directory where FSACESS is located on the
- hard drive and type FSACCESS A: and the machine locks up.
- Reboot.
-
- (3) Okay, the instructions say to execute this from the
- prompt referencing the image file (i.e. A:\), so I
- path the FSACCESS program in the AUTOEXEC.BAT on the
- floppy disk and recreate the image file. Now the
- image file hangs when starting. Hmmm... Reboot.
-
- (4) Okay, so take out the path and just physically
- reference the fsaccess program from the image file.
- So I create and boot the image file and type
- c:\os2\fsaccess A: and the system hangs. Reboot.
-
- (5) Okay, maybe the fsaccess program needs to be on
- the image file. So I copy FSACCESS onto the floppy
- and recreate the image. After booting, I type
- FSACCESS A: and the systems hangs.
-
- What am I doing wrong? The instructions don't go into
- much detail about how to get around this. Any answers?
-
- Thx,
- --
- Wes Santee | "I think it's about time we voted for senators
- santeew@cs.uoregon.edu | with breasts. After all, we've been voting
- | for boobs long enough."
- | -Claire Sargent on women senators
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