Mount disk images for MS-DOS

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Mon Jun 28 11:53:09 2004

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wai-Sun Chia" <waisun.chia_at_hp.com>
To: <General_at_caspar.squidster.home>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: Mount disk images for MS-DOS


> I think what he wants is the ability to mount a floppy disk image on
> DOS. Presumably he's a Unix person, the analogy in Linux/Unix is below
> (assuming your DOS floppy image is called fdimage):
>
> mount /tmp/fdimage /mnt -t msdos -o loop=/dev/loop3,blocksize=1024
>
>
> /wai-sun
>

Under Mac OS and Disk Copy 6.3.3 you can image any number of disks that can
then be double clicked and show up on the desktop just like a real disk
would when inserted into the drive. This allows programs with multiple disks
to be imaged and then installed directly from the images instead of having
to be converted back to a real disk and inserted one at a time into the
computer when it needed the next disk. If there a program in dos (assuming
you had enough memory to work with) that did the same type of thing you
could install multi disk games and apps without messing with real disks or
hacking the files to the HD or a CD. The process would allow you to put your
originals in a vault and never use them or a real floppy disk again.

I have not seen anything like this (there are programs that do virtual CD's
in windows but copy protection defeats most of them).

At least this is what I assume the original poster was thinking (this type
of thing is implemented in most emulators for 8/16 bit machines)
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 11:53:09 BST