Re: self-extracting diskette image to hard disk?
- From: "tholen@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <tholen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Oct 2005 18:45:02 -0700
Doug Bissett writes:
>> 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.
Maybe that's why they sold them to Lenovo.
> 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.
Yes, I have noticed that. Some of the drivers for Intel NICs have been
buried inside a massive file requiring Windows to unpack.
>> 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.
Hmm. I used HELP FORMAT to find that a 1.44 MB floppy has 80 tracks
and 18 sectors, which worked out to 1024 byte sectors, but didn't
consider
the possibility that the number of sectors is really 36 when you count
both sides of the floppy. In any event, it still didn't work with the
bytes per sector set to 512.
.
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