#!/bin/sh # mkpartition - for dosemu 0.51 # Robert Sanders, gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu # # $Date: 1994/06/12 23:17:32 $ # $Source: /home/src/dosemu0.60/periph/RCS/mkpartition,v $ # $Revision: 2.1 $ # $State: Exp $ # # For details about Direct Partition Access (DPA) read the manual # of the Linux DOS-emulator. # ME=`basename $0` # Name of the command DRIVE=$1 # complete hard-disk-device PARTNUM=$2 # number of the partition on $DRIVE PART=${DRIVE}${PARTNUM} # complete name of the partition LIBDIR=/var/lib/dosemu # Directory, where the partition-file is PFILE=${LIBDIR}/partition # Partial name of the partition file echo "MKPARTITION for the Linux DOS-emulator " echo if [ $# != 2 ] ; then echo "$ME needs two parameters to work right:" echo echo "usage: $ME " echo echo "example:" echo " If you'd like to access you DOS-partition /dev/hda2 with" echo " dosemu's DPA (direct partition access), issue the command" echo echo " $ME /dev/hda 2 (as root)" echo echo "For details about Direct Partition Access (DPA) read the manual" echo "of the Linux DOS-emulator." echo exit 1 fi PFILE=${PFILE}.`basename $PART` # Name of the real file echo "Setting up dosemu to use partition $PART from drive $DRIVE..." if [ $PARTNUM -gt 8 ] then echo "$ME: $PARTNUM outside range; the highest partition is 8" exit 1 fi if [ ! -r "$DRIVE" -o ! -r "$PART" ] then echo "$ME: drive <$DRIVE> or partition <$PART> non-readable or absent" exit 1 fi if [ -r "$PFILE" ] then echo "Backing up $PFILE to $PFILE.old" mv $PFILE ${PFILE}.old fi # Filename of the partition-file contains now the partition to be used. # This should enable us to use more that one partition on one disk. # The resulting file should have permissions 644 (any comments?) dd if=$DRIVE of=$PFILE bs=512 count=1 chmod 644 $PFILE # End of mkpartition from the Linux DOS-emulator