[Wine] Re: seatools for DOS

[heavytull]

> From what you've said, I'm guessing that its actually a Windows
> executable that gets downloaded and when run it will write an image to
> the floppy disk. You then reboot from that disk and run the tool from
> the FreeDOS environment that comes up.


yes that's it.


> That all said, the idea of writing a floppy image is the key problem.


actually tht's the key problem i didn't think about.


> Having a: symlinked to /media/floppy or wherever else your floppy is
> mounted doesn't allow for a raw disk image to be written to the floppy.

of course!


> Which is exactly what I suspect this program is attempting to do. It
> probably has a binary blob that it expects to be able to write directly
> to the floppy.
> 

probably.


> For that it would need to point to the actually floppy device under
> /dev, such as /dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy.
> 

yes

i set in wincfg a: pointing to the floppy device. so i could access to the floppy device directly by a: through wine. but unfortunately that doesn't work.
the error message returned is different. it says "couldn't write to a:"

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Darragh