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echo: os2prog
to: John Poltorak
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1995-03-17 03:31:10
subject: NEXTDEV.SYS

JP> My idea for using this type of device driver is purely for support 
 JP> situations, and would probably only be used for 
 JP> booting from a floppy disk. Having all the necessary 
 JP> files for a minimum OS/2 text mode session available 
 JP> on a VDISK would allow much more flexibility for 
 JP> trouble shooting than being reliant on just a floppy 
 JP> disk on its own.

Find the vdisk by searching for its volume label.   I think that is the way
OS/2's install finds it.

There is also a way to query a drive to see if it is a ramdisk,  but the
method escapes me at the moment;  it might be something down at the ADD
level.


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