hi, * Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> [2004-09-28 00:16]: > #include <hallo.h> cool :) > * Nico Golde [Sun, Sep 26 2004, 01:05:25PM]: > > > > everytime i get the wnpp packages as an email i see loadlin in it. > > > > i dont understand why this is a wnpp because its a program running under > > > > dos and not under linux. > > > > > > Do you think that LILO and GRUB should not be in Debian then? > > > Their most important code does not run under Linux either. > > > > i am not quite shure but as far as i know nothing of the loadlin code > > runs under linux. > > from apt-cache show: > > Description: a loader (running under DOS) ... > > it runs under dos and i think i am not a member of the debian gnu/dos > > conspiracy. please if i understand something wrong make it clear. > > regards nico > > Which conspiracy? > What is wrong with DSFG-free and Linux-related software? nothing, i agree very much with the thougts of dfsg. > To make sure what you do not understand, please make your point clear. my only problem is why a dos program is distributed under linux. my point is. if you need it for your dos partition to boot linux out of it you cant get i from the pool because you need it for booting linux and get it from the pool so it is some kind of a neverending circle. maybe i misunderstand something please help me if i am wrong. regards nico -- Nico Golde - 310777820@ICQ nico@ngolde.de | nion@gmx.net | http://www.ngolde.de GPG: FF46 E565 5CC1 E2E5 3F69 C739 1D87 E549 7364 7CFF Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?
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