Re: Proposal for a new installation boot concept

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.preferred.com>]

> 1. The boot process from the boot disk starts FreeDOS. Once in FreeDOS the
>    user can operate on a known MS-DOS level until all troubleshooting has
>    been done and the kernel operates.

Woah. Dos is assumed to be a known quantity?! Well, yes, I've used dos,
but I'm profoundly uncomfortable with it. I'm about as comfortable
loading basic programs onto an old C64. Please don't assume that just
because we know linux, we know dos.

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