Re: SysLinux
On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Peter Anvin has SysLinux working with bzImage and initrd. He hasn't
> released it yet. Once he does, we can go back to the MSDOS filesystem
> on the boot floppy.
why would we want to?
minix gives us long file names, msdos doesn't...makes it easier to have a
combined boot/root disk which can be used on low memory systems (i.e. no
ramdisk)
i'd rather use minix and lilo than msdos & syslinux.
(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)
Craig
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