Hello Jose, * Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org> [2004-09-28 00:58]: > El mar, 28-09-2004 a las 00:37 +0200, Nico Golde escribió: > [...] > > > To make sure what you do not understand, please make your point clear. > > > > my only problem is why a dos program is distributed under linux. my > > point is. if you need it for your dos partition to boot linux out of it > > you cant get i from the pool because you need it for booting linux and > > get it from the pool so it is some kind of a neverending circle. > > maybe i misunderstand something please help me if i am wrong. > > Easy. CD creation script take loadlin from the archive when creating a > CD, so you can boot it from DOS. And it has a lot of sense to keep it in > the archive (you also keep memtest in it, and it cannot be used under > linux or any other OS) ok thanks for you explanation. now it makes sense to me too. regards nico -- Nico Golde - 310777820@ICQ nico@ngolde.de | nion@gmx.net | http://www.ngolde.de GPG: FF46 E565 5CC1 E2E5 3F69 C739 1D87 E549 7364 7CFF Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?
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