On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Daniel Malament <blue@anonix.net> wrote:
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>> I think my first course of action would be to use DOS, or possibly OS/2,
>> to
>> override the disk geometry, unless the disk has data on it that can only
>> be
>> accessed from OpenBSD. Yes, I know it's intellectually more fun to get
>> OpenBSD to do it, but for a one off with little practical future use I
>> think
>> I'd use something else. DOS, OS/2 and OpenBSD can of course all be booted
>> from floppy, thus avoiding any early initialisation nastiness.
>
> I'm not sure what you're describing here.  Also, accessing the data from DOS
> still leaves the problem of moving it.  Or perhaps I didn't make it
> sufficiently clear that the goal was to copy the data off the drive...

You can install the Microsoft Network Client software for DOS. I still
have it on a 386 box
and used to use it to connect to an OpenBSD samba box.

Download from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT
the DSK3-1.EXE and DSK3-2.EXE files. Run these self extracting executables in a
temp dir, and read the README.
IIRC there is a setup program, which is a little bit confusing, and
you have to edit protocol.ini and another *ini file.
And you need a driver for your NIC. NIC's from that time came with a
floppy with  drivers for Microsoft Client or Lan Manager.

Adriaan
Adriaan




IIRC these are self extracting