Obscure DOS question

[David H. Barr]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:09:26 -0800 (PST), Vintage Computer Festival
<vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Eric Smith wrote:

> > Sellam wrote:
> > > MS-DOS 3.3 has a limit of 512 entries in the root directory.  I have a
> > > need to put more than this.

> > If you aren't able to run the Linux mkdosfs command yourself, I can
> > send you a ZIP file containing an otherwise empty floppy image
> > created as described above, and you can use rawrite.exe or equivalent
> > to write it onto a real floppy disk.
 
> Thanks for the offer, but I'd need to format a hard drive thusly.  This is
> a decent solution if I can't come up with anything else.

The image could be mailed and rawritten to a floppy (or turned into a
bootable .iso), and something like Ghost for Unix could be used to
expand the filesystem to the appropriate hard disk.  At least, I
-think- that could work if one booted G4U off a CD if the filesystem
was on a floppy or vice versa.

-dhbarr.

PS:  Just a reminder not to be confuse about Ghost for Linux, an
apparently non-credited rip of Ghost for Unix.