Re: SysLinux
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > Peter Anvin has SysLinux working with bzImage and initrd.
> > We can go back to the MSDOS filesystem on the boot floppy.
>
> From: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
> > why would we want to?
> > minix gives us long file names, msdos doesn't
>
> Actually, the boot disk is now a MSDOS-format floppy containing a
> kernel and a compressed MINIX ram disk image. It works excellently. It
> supports long file names, and those critical character and block
> special files (which MSDOS doesn't support). Having the floppy be in
> the MSDOS format means that the end-user can replace the kernel on the
> floppy easily. That's the only reason we do it, other than the fact
> that SysLinux provides us with help screens and LILO doesn't.
>
> > (this is more of a philisophical objection than a technical one - debian,
> > or any version of linux for that matter, shouldn't need msdos to install)
>
> It's just the MSDOS filesystem.
>
It wasn't even created for MSDOS, Bill Gates created it in a motel over a
weekend (If my memory serves me correct), sometime in the mid 70's, this
was way b/4 Microsoft bought MSDOS.
Just my 2 Agarot.
Shaya
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Shaya Potter
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