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turska

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Registered: 2007-04-27

Posts: 13

Mounting DoubleSpace-compressed hard drives read-only

I recently received an old computer that ran win95 and I used it for playing old MS-DOS games that were on its hard drive. But then its motherboard fried.
And now I'd like to retrieve the games from the DoubleSpace-compressed hard drive so I could play them in Dosbox.
I googled a bit and the only result was some kernel module named dmsdos made for 2.2 kernels.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

timofonic

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Registered: 2007-05-15

Posts: 47

Re: Mounting DoubleSpace-compressed hard drives read-only

Sadly, I need the same and not found a recent kernel with dmsdos.

I found an outdated site about dmsdos:
http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/dmsdos/

Any info about this? I can't understand how there isn't a solution for this problem.

I readed umsdosfs had some kind of cvf-fat support, but this was deleted of the kernel because unmaintained. Any news about this?

Last edited by timofonic (2007-05-15 05:16:27)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,803

Re: Mounting DoubleSpace-compressed hard drives read-only

The easiest way to get acces to such a drive is probably to create a win98 | win95 | msdos6.22  (take your pick) virtual machine (vmware|kvm etc) and copy the files to a non-compressed medium.

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Mounting DoubleSpace-compressed hard drives read-only

The easiest way to get acces to such a drive is probably to create a win98 | win95 | msdos6.22  (take your pick) virtual machine (vmware|kvm etc) and copy the files to a non-compressed medium.

to do that, plug in the hdd, and you can set vmware to boot straight from it. vmware server is available free and will do everything you need, despite the name, take a look, afaik it's in the AUR.

James