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Re: Proposal for a new installation boot concept



On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Juergen Menden wrote:

menden>> > 1. The boot process from the boot disk starts FreeDOS. Once in FreeDOS the
menden>> >    user can operate on a known MS-DOS level until all troubleshooting has
menden>> >    been done and the kernel operates.
menden>> 
menden>> Woah. Dos is assumed to be a known quantity?! 
menden>> [...] Please don't assume that just
menden>> because we know linux, we know dos.
The DOS format is universally supported across all platforms. If something
must be changed then any operating system can be used to copy/modify
files.

menden>with all the other points i agree. (me too, me too :-))
menden>only one thing: this discussion is for debian-1.3, right?
1.3? I am more thinking of an alternate boot-floppies package like
boot-up or so. Should not take too long to put that together if
changes to existing boot procedures are minimized.

I also thought about providing a way to install directly from a dos
harddrive.

Have a package debinst.exe that selfdecompresses a kernel, loadlin and a
root image. A batch fires the stuff up and off you go. Never touch a
floppy.

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