Mail Archives: opendos/2004/05/30/04:25:35
On 29 May 2004 at 21:27, Michal H. Tyc wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:47:57 -0700, shadow AT shadowgard DOT com wrote:
>
> > Is there a DOS that I can boot from a floppy that has drivers to
> > allow access to NTFS partitions?
>
> The only NTFS driver for DOS I know is NTFSDOS from Sysinternals. (But
> the freeware version is read-only, so you won't be able to correct any
> problem.)
Even finding them would help. :-)
And if it ain't *too* expensive, buying it won't be a big problem if
it'll work.
> > For the occasional badly infected system that folks bring to me, I
> > used to boot from a DOS floppy and run F-Prot for DOS (yes, it
> > requires putting in 4 floppies to get all the definitions loaded :-)
>
> Two 1.44M floppies should be enough (maybe three, the v**** definition
> files can have grown too much since the last time I made such a floppy
> set, and NTFS driver will take some additional space as well).
The definition files now each require their own floppies. Basically,
the first one loaded after the program won't fit on a 1.44 along with
the program (much less an OS). And the others are too big to fit on a
floppy with the others.
In the order you have to feed the floppies in...
5-23-2004 23:16 1,117,130 SIGN.DEF
5-23-2004 23:16 1,279,405 SIGN2.DEF
5-24-2004 15:40 498,021 MACRO.DEF
So I have a boot floppy, the F-prot program floppy, and the three
definition floppies. All write protected except when I update them at
home. :-)
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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com
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