Re: self-extracting diskette image to hard disk?

Martin T writes:

> Michael Baldwin Bruce wrote:

>> Dickless DAvie tholen@xxxxxxxxxxxx whined:

>>> It's great that IBM is still providing OS/2 device drivers for the
>>> T series of ThinkPads.

>> On what basis do you make that k'lame, Dickless?

>>> 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.

>> What sort of idiot uses OS/2 on a laptop with floppies?

> Well, Tholen is special.... <strange>

Non sequitur, given that I'm not using OS/2 on a laptop with
floppies. Therein lies the problem with IBM's device drivers,
which require extraction to a floppy.

Michael Baldwin Bruce is the strange one, seeking out postings
made by me in whatever newsgroup they may appear, and then
posting a reply to not only that newsgroup, but additional
irrelevant newsgroups, with useless content.

Of course, your own content is also useless, Martin.

>>> 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.

>> FORTRAN luser!

> I reality I think it's an automated bot pretending to be troll (or at least
> partly automated, because it get's so artificially repetitive after a short
> while).

What you think is irrelevant, Martin. Also illogical, given that
automated bots do not post questions about how to extract device
drivers to hard disks when the self-extracting program insists on
a floppy disk.

Surely you can find a more appropriate newsgroup for your abuse,
Martin.

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