Re: self-extracting diskette image to hard disk?
- From: "Doug Bissett" <doug.bissett!SPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:03:38 GMT
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:27:08 UTC, "tholen@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<tholen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's great that IBM is still providing OS/2 device drivers for the
> T series of ThinkPads. However, I am a little puzzled as to why
> the executable files that you can download from their web site
> require extraction to a floppy diskette, especially when the
> ThinkPad models in question don't even come with a floppy disk
> drive.
Simple. IBM still thinks that personal computers are "toys", not worth
bothering with. They just don't think about them, at all. You will
also find, that IBM has, on occasion, packaged an OS/2 program, or
update, inside of a windows program, so you need to run windows to
extract them to the non existant diskette drive.
> I'm trying to install the audio and network drivers for a T43p.
> I've got the driver files from IBM's web site, but I do not have a
> floppy disk drive handy, nor access to a machine with one for the
> next two weeks, and I'd rather not wait that long to get the audio
> and network features working.
>
> Is there some way I can extract the files to hard disk? I tried
> using VDISK.SYS to make a floppy-sized virtual drive, but it
> didn't work, possibly because the maximum sector size allowed is
> 512 bytes, but 1.44 MB floppies have 1024 byte sectors.
VDISK is a virtual hard disk. You need a virtual diskette drive. The
best available, is VFDISK:
> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/filesys/vfdisk30.zip
You are also mistaken about 1.44 MB diskettes having 1024 byte
sectors. ALL normal diskettes, and hard disks, have 512 byte sectors.
Hope this helps...
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