Hi Jeremy,
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:24:41 -0400
From: Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-kernel] reload partition table and reassign
drive letters
Reply-To: freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net
I've considered this in the past,
The main issue with FreeCom would be the location of its resources
changing. As long as the comspec env variable still pointed to the same
(or an identical) copy of the strings, it would probably be ok, but
honestly I don't know if FreeCom closes/opens or keeps open the file
with its
Hello Kenneth,
The main issue with FreeCom would be the location of its resources
changing.
under normal circumstances, FreeCom-xmsswap will have it's resources
loaded at startup and touch them never again.
Tom
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Hi, yes, FreeCOM can handle changing drive letters. The PROBLEM
is that harddisk letters are handled by a kernel driver which
can only do one hole-free range of drive letters. So if you
could enable a new partition on the fly, all subsequent drive
letters would move. HOWEVER, you are free to
Eric Auer schreef:
Hi, yes, FreeCOM can handle changing drive letters. The PROBLEM
is that harddisk letters are handled by a kernel driver which
can only do one hole-free range of drive letters. So if you
could enable a new partition on the fly, all subsequent drive
letters would move. HOWEVER,
Hi Bernd,
I did not invent quickboot, fdapm hotboot just calls int 19
(load boot sector and run it). To make that work in real life,
you would have to have all interrupt vectors DOS free at the
moment, or at least some int 19 handler would have to be hooked
by everything which hooks boot-relavant
firstly, I never said FreeCom couldn't handle drive letter changes, I
said if one did something, then they need to make sure it can; in
particular the way it loads strings; although from my experience not
being able to load its strings usually just results in FreeCom issuing
useless messages
Hi!
20-Окт-2005 00:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to
freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net:
style driver which MOUNTS an arbitrary FAT partition: You only
BB except it cannot re-assign already used driveletters I guess. Same as
There exists utilities, which swaps drive letters
Hi,
Very very nice discussion, I am enjoying this a lot, thanks!
Kenneth J. Davis escribió:
various details like that. And really if you wanted to be clever,
maintain the needed information about open files and TSRs won't even
notice the change, even if the file is now on a different drive
