On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Daniel Malament <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think my first course of action would be to use DOS, or possibly OS/2, >> to >> override the disk geometry, unless the disk has data on it that can only >> be >> accessed from OpenBSD. Yes, I know it's intellectually more fun to get >> OpenBSD to do it, but for a one off with little practical future use I >> think >> I'd use something else. DOS, OS/2 and OpenBSD can of course all be booted >> from floppy, thus avoiding any early initialisation nastiness. > > I'm not sure what you're describing here. Also, accessing the data from DOS > still leaves the problem of moving it. Or perhaps I didn't make it > sufficiently clear that the goal was to copy the data off the drive...
You can install the Microsoft Network Client software for DOS. I still have it on a 386 box and used to use it to connect to an OpenBSD samba box. Download from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT the DSK3-1.EXE and DSK3-2.EXE files. Run these self extracting executables in a temp dir, and read the README. IIRC there is a setup program, which is a little bit confusing, and you have to edit protocol.ini and another *ini file. And you need a driver for your NIC. NIC's from that time came with a floppy with drivers for Microsoft Client or Lan Manager. Adriaan Adriaan IIRC these are self extracting
