Installing device drivers at run time?

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From: Roger Hadgraft
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 22:59

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Does anyone know of a utility which would install a device driver (that would
normally go in config.sys) at the DOS prompt?

I have in mind doing something like this:

    C:> DDINSTAL ansi.sys

The reason I want to do this, is that on our Novell network, we have remote boot
for the student PCs. The boot image (including config.sys) is fixed. However,
some software packages (eg. SYGRAPH) require device drivers to be loaded. To
accommodate this at the moment, I must generate multiple boot images. Switching
between them is not trivial.
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Roger Hadgraft                  |  hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au
Lecturer in Civil Engineering   |  phone:  +61 3 565 4983
Monash University               |  fax:    +61 3 565 3409
Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia.  |

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From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft)
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Subject: Installing device drivers at run time?
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Date: 27 Feb 90 22:59:46 GMT
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