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Re: loadlin in wnpp



El mar, 28-09-2004 a las 00:37 +0200, Nico Golde escribió:

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> > 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.

 Easy. CD creation script take loadlin from the archive when creating a
CD, so you can boot it from DOS. And it has a lot of sense to keep it in
the archive (you also keep memtest in it, and it cannot be used under
linux or any other OS)

 regards

-- 
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   jsogo@debian.org

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