Before Windows 2000, even in Windows 95, FAT32 was introduced with
supported for longer filenames than the 8.3 limit of Dos 6.22.
Fast forward to Freedos 1.2 and the need to use freedos to copy a
Windows 2000 installation to an external hard drive. I have the
Panasonic usb driver and another sys file that gives me access to
the external hard drive. Awfully tough to find though :-(
I am wondering how to preserve the long filenames of some of the files
in the Windows 2000 installation when I'm in Freedos via boot floppy.
Wondering if there is a file manager that I can add to the boot disk
that will preserve and display long filenames properly? I also
understand that I need a new enough version of doslfn, it's part of
freedos 1.2. Apparently, the currently distributed version is too
old...
When I talk about an Agilent E5061A or Agilent E5071B with Windows 2000
it sounds inappropriate for a freedos discussion list, but my tools are
based on a Freedos bootdisk and are mostly (except for the Panasonic
usb driver and di1000dd.sys) free. The E5061A is out of calibration
and belongs to my employer, so I am using it to learn and it may be
recalibrated at some point. The E5071B is another company's analyzer
that has hard drive partitions which are too small. Uge! If I develop
a way to boot from floppy into Windows 2000 on an external hard drive,
that will be a great way to keep these machines going without going
into the cases. For the production analyzer, we could run on an
external usb drive until recalibration is up and recommend that the
external drive be moved inside of the analyzer. The E5071B may use
EIDE drives instead of SATA III, which can be worked around with an
adapter.
I want to thank everyone who has helped me as I've been developing the
capability to restore the analyzer's system to an outside hard drive.
This Panasonic driver may be ghost compatible and I may be able to
restore directly onto the external drive. In that case, I won't have
to worry about getting a boot loader on and preserving long filenames.
-- Michael C. Robinson
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