[Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-07-31 Thread Bernd Blaauw
I'm experimenting a bit with TDSK as I can see use for a ramdisk in situations with read-only media and no memory drivers. Thus a small conventional memory ramdisk needed for tiny temporary files, redirection and pipe symbols, etc. However I'm experiencing that the initialisation part of TDSK

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-07-31 Thread Tom Ehlert
Bernd, assign a fix (W:) drive letter to the CD drive; Tom am 31. Juli 2011 um 14:45 schrieben Sie: I'm experimenting a bit with TDSK as I can see use for a ramdisk in situations with read-only media and no memory drivers. Thus a small conventional memory ramdisk needed for tiny temporary

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-07-31 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 31-7-2011 16:36, Tom Ehlert schreef: Bernd, assign a fix (W:) drive letter to the CD drive; Tom or load TDSK before loading CD drivers, etc. SRDISK respects driveletters, as do RDISK, SHSURDRV, XMSDSK etc. As both SRDISK and TDSK are GPL it might be possible to copy some init code. Your

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-07-31 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 31-7-2011 16:48, Bernd Blaauw schreef: Op 31-7-2011 16:36, Tom Ehlert schreef: Bernd, assign a fix (W:) drive letter to the CD drive; Tom Experimented a little bit more: TDSK takes first driveletter after what seems to be last block device. Having harddisk (C:), then CDROM (D:) then

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-07-31 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 31-7-2011 16:58, Bernd Blaauw schreef: Op 31-7-2011 16:48, Bernd Blaauw schreef: Op 31-7-2011 16:36, Tom Ehlert schreef: Bernd, assign a fix (W:) drive letter to the CD drive; Now I'll be done talking to myself.. Issue solved: SHSUFDRV does the trick as it installs as block device,