From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:05:25 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: "Colin W. Glenn" cc: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" Subject: Re: [opendos-developer] Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote: > > Yep, I think it should be possible to mount BOTH ways from the > > start. I mean I for one love mounting under a subdir, but hey, > > this is DOS, and I don't want to see drive letters disappear > > either. Both ways should be made possible from the start. > > Why not? Given that you must provide a formatted 'drive' a volume name, > you could give the name 'root' to your primary boot hard drive, and mount > other volume-names to a directory on your root. > > ie, if you want to access your DJGPP files and they're on drive 'djgpp', > you just type: > > mount djgpp > > And volia! You do a DIR of your and djgpp it there! > > What makes this really neat is with the advent of removable media hard > drives, you could mount several volumes without their actually being in > the drive, the system would prompt you to insert the volume if you > accessed it and it wasn't in the drive. How can you "mount" something that is not there? That is a contradiction of terms. You mount a disk, use it, then umount it and then remove it. If you remove a disk without umounting, kiss the disk goodbye and get your fingers on the BRS. Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca URL of the day: http://www.digital.com