Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/04/10:26:19
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>Good question, but it is possible since an OS/2 boot partition using HPFS
>also loads it's IFS driver in the CONFIG.SYS file also.. The superblock of
>the partition should allow at least basic reading of all supported FS's..
>(That is how I believe IBM got around that problem) For at least from the
>root directory to read the boot files (all system files and the
>config.sys/autoexec.bat)
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>Jonathan Tarbox
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>From: Dave Pearson[SMTP:davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 1997 2:49 AM
>To: OpenDOS Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
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>Mark Habersack writes:
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>> > And perhaps also go along the lines of Linux and have loadable modules
>> > (a bit like VLMs).
>>
>> Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a
>> standard for these drivers.
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>Hmm, there is an interesting question. If filesystem support is loaded
>from CONFIG.SYS, and you want to have a 100% VFAT or even ext2fs
>filesystem, how will DOS be able to read the filesystem to find
>CONFIG.SYS so that it can load the file system driver that is required
>to read things from the filesystem that CONFIG.SYS is held on....
>
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