Installation instructions for the LTOOLS for DOS

NOTE:
IF YOUR LTOOLS DISTRIBUTION ONLY CONTAINS A .\BIN SUBDIRECTORY, 
YOU GOT THE DOS ONLY VERSION OF THE LTOOLS. ONLY THE 16bit COMMAND LINE TOOLS 
ARE PROVIDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION PLEASE READ FILE "README.TXT" FOR INSTRUCTIONS 
ON HOW TO USE THEM.

THE SECTIONS ABOUT THE JAVA AND .NET GUI AND ABOUT THE 32BIT WINDOWS AND 
LINUX/UNIX VERSION IN FILE README.TXT DO NOT REFER TO THE DOS ONLY PACKAGE.

THE DOS ONLY VERSION ONLY WORKS FOR EXTENDED 2 AND EXTENDED 3 LINUX FILE SYSTEMS.
REISER FILE SYSTEM IS NOT SUPPORTED UNDER DOS.

TO GET THE FULL PACKAGE WITH SOURCE CODE INCLUDING THE WINDOWS AND UNIX 
VERSION AND THE VARIOUS GUIs GOTO 
	www.fht-esslingen.de/~software/zimmerma/ltools.html

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Installation under DOS
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Step 1
Unzip this to any directory you like keeping the subdirectory structure intact.

Step 2
Read file README.TXT !

Step 3
Use the LTOOLS.

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Uninstallation under DOS
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Delete the directory, into which you unzipped the LTOOLS and all its files


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Problems under DOS
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Most problems under DOS come from one of 3 facts:

1.
Partition names and numbers under DOS and LINUX are different. 
Run 		ldir -part
to find out, where your Linux partitions show up under DOS, e.g. /dev/hda9.
Then run all LTOOLS commands using command line parameter "-s/dev/hda9" (or
whatever disk name and partition number you happen to have. 
So e.g.
		ldir -s/dev/hda9 /

2. 
DOS uses BIOS for disk access and both were never designed for today's large harddisks.
So over the past 25 years DOS used a bundle of different methods for harddisk access
to bypass BIOS deficiencies. The LTOOLS use the most recent one by default, but can 
be switched to other methods via command line options. 5 different combinations may 
be tried:
		ldir              ...
		ldir -ext         ...
		ldir -noext       ...
		ldir -ext   -chs  ...
		ldir -noext -chs  ...
		
3.
Users never read manuals. In case of problems, read README.TXT!

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DISCLAIMER
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WRITE ACCESS TO YOUR HARDDISK MAY BE DANGEROUS, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR LINUX UNBOOTABLE
OR DESTROY IMPORTANT DATA!!! ONLY USE IT WIHT ULTIMATE CARE AND ONLY IF YOU HAVE
A BACKUP AVAILABLE. NEVER TRY WRITING UNLESS READING DOES NOT WORK WITHOUT PROBLEMS.

!!! PLASE NOTE: IN ANY CASE, YOU ARE USING THE LTOOLS ON YOUR OWN RISK !!!
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Have fun

Werner Zimmermann
