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Bug#518808: installation-guide: Put back booting from DOS section



Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hello,

Once install.bat gets back on debian-cd (#518807), please enable the
"booting from DOS" section again, as patch attached.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- 
Samuel
<N> (* If you have a precise idea of the intended use of the following code, please
<N>    write to Eduardo.Gimenez@inria.fr and ask for the prize :-)
<N>    -- Eduardo (11/8/97) *)
 -+- N sur #ens-mim - et c'était un des développeurs -+-
Index: en/boot-installer/x86.xml
===================================================================
--- en/boot-installer/x86.xml	(révision 57777)
+++ en/boot-installer/x86.xml	(copie de travail)
@@ -95,9 +95,6 @@
 </para>
   </sect2>
 
-<!-- FIXME the documented procedure does not exactly work, commented out
-     until fixes
-
   <sect2 arch="x86" id="install-from-dos">
   <title>Booting from a DOS partition</title>
 
@@ -119,16 +116,9 @@
 
 </para><para>
 
-Please note, there is currently a loadlin problem (#142421) which
-precludes <filename>install.bat</filename> from being used with the
-bf2.4 flavor. The symptom of the problem is an
-<computeroutput>invalid compressed format</computeroutput> error.
-
 </para>
   </sect2>
 
-END FIXME -->
-
   <sect2 arch="x86" id="boot-initrd">
   <title>Booting from Linux Using <command>LILO</command> or
   <command>GRUB</command></title>

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