Re: Installing to UMSDOS?
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Steve Phillips wrote:
> How does one install to a UMSDOS partition instead of an ext2 pertition?
> Has anyone ever done this?
>
> --
I've just completed it - but it was messy for unknown reasons - and I'd
be interested in hearing other approaches/experiences.
Fist, put umsdos.o and umssync, the umsdos utility from sunsite on a
DOS disk. Boot from the install boot/root disks and escape to a shell.
Mount the DOS disk and load umsdos. Mount /dev/hda1 as type umsdos to
/root. Now the fun begins...
I tried two alternatives: umssync /root to setup the umsdos files, exit
back to the setup menu to install and configure the base stuff. Umsdos
wants to start life in /linux. So, I "mv'ed" all the directories to
/linux. Unfortunately a number of files - ld.so for one and /sbin/init
for another - got corrupted with the move. Trying to fix the umsdos files
names seemed to be too big a trial. (Why would the files names get
corrupted? Certain directories, /lib and /sbin, got a big hit.)
So on to alternative two.
mkdir /hd and mount -t umsdos /dev/hda1 /hd. Now mkdir /hd/linux (where
things should be in the first place) and rm /root and ln -s /hd/linux
/root. Umssync /hd/linux. The debian setup assumes the file destination
is in /root. Unfortunately the setup tests df to see the /root is
MOUNTED. So, the rest becomes running a few lines from dinstall by hand.
Look at dinstall for the exact sequence but it's something like: mount -o
ro -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt; cd /mnt; ./install.sh to mount the boot disk
and load some stuff. Then cd /hd/linux; floppy_merge /dev/fd0 | gunzip |
cpio --extract to get the 3 base disks installed. There are 4 dsetup_*
commands to configure everything (from /sbin). dsetup_mod hung on me but
i didn't need the module stuff setup so I rebooted and skipped that one.
Finally, you need a vmlinuz with umsdos compiled in which I made on
another debian machine. I use loadlin to boot from the DOS command line
(Win'95 is also installed).
I suffered a number of floppy disk hangs for unknown reasons and nothing
seemed to repeatable except the /lib & /sbin file name corruptions. But
the system does work now.
I have one last problem - emacs will not install. dpkg-deb complains that
it cannot delete a file that's not there and the emacs/lisp directory is
corrupted! more to do...
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Paul Kirschner #include <disclaimer.std>
pek@utrc.utc.com
United Technologies Research Center
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