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Re: Dos (spit> partition



On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 02:06:51PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Dear Debian People,
> 
> 	Thought it best to mail this separately to the last one, since the
> problems are entirely different. I could do with being able to run a
> couple of dos sysadmin programs on Selwyn-Server2, which I can mount using
> ncpmount. Unfortunatly, to do so, I need dosemu, which means I need at
> least a minimal dos partition with dos on. This means I need to snip a few
> K of the end of my linux partition (which is about 20% full). Is there a
> simple way to do this, bearing in mind I don't have 50MB space anyway to
> back it all up on, and I'd rather not have to install Debian all over
> again :)

You can use the entire unix filesystem under DOSemu :-)  Alternatively, use
a hard disk image.

Try something like this in DOSemu (DOSemu boots from a small hdimage by
default IIRC):
  
  lredir d: linux\fs

Adrian

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