Bug#2463: msdos" filesystem needed for bootstrapping

[Nikhil Nair <nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Package: image
>
> The "image" package should have three filesystems linked into the kernel.
> ext2, minix, and msdos. I think at the moment "msdos" is not linked in.

Hmm ... how about umsdos?  It's quite feasible to run a whole Linux
system off a single DOS partition using umsdos, and in fact I know of
some such systems in our College.  I'd hate to think that this can be done
with Slackware &c but not with Debian :-( ... presumably a module
wouldn't be good enough if the root filesystem was umsdos ...

Nikhil.