Re: self-extracting diskette image to hard disk?

Doug Bissett wrote:
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...
I have successfully used VFDISK to extract floppy images, then copy them to the HD. Just make sure the parameter sets the size to 1.44 Mb (I used 2.88 once, and the image wouldn't extract)

Stuart
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