Redirected Drives

Redirected drives work with DOS and Windows 95 only. Because Windows NT does not contain DOS, you will not be able to use redirected drives with Windows NT. If you are using Windows NT, skip this section.

A redirected drive is a drive that is mapped for you in DOS. The default extended drives F:, H:, and R: are redirected drives.These drives are automatically set up for you during SunPCi installation, and are named in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. This means that you do not have to access drive F: manually in order to use the DOS commands it contains.

By default, SunPCi assigns the following extended drives:

• F: /opt/SUNWspci

• H: $HOME (your home directory)

• R: / (the root filesystem)

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  Note –

  The default extended drives F:, H:, and R: support only the DOS-based short file names (8.3 file names) and not the Windows 95 long file names. Do not use the default drives to install Windows 95 software; instead, map a new extended drive (or drives) and use them to install the software. To map an extended drive, refer to Accessing Solaris Files and CD-ROMs From Windows 95.

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If desired, you can use rem (remark) statements to remove the default drive mappings for H: and R: from your C:\autoexec.bat file and use them to mount other extended drives.