On 17 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
> pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am a Linux fanatic living in India.
> >
> > I currently use Slackware 3.3.
> >
> > I wish to keep my system Microsoft-free. I have the follwing problem.
> >
> > (1) It is almost impossible to get non pnp ethernet cards, modems etc in
> > India.
> > (2) Further these cards are usually no-name Asian types with their own DOS
> > drivers
> > (3) I am no great device-driver writer.
> >
> > Since I have to use Linux with these peripherals, I have to first boot
> > into DOS and then warm-boot into Linux.
> >
> > Can I get rid of MSDOS if I use freeDOS ? All I want is my machine to boot
> > into DOS, poke in the pnp drivers and warm-boot Linux.
> >
>
> You must have a look at isapnptools.
>
> The debian package says:
>
> Description: ISA Plug-And-Play configuration utilities.
> This program is suitable for all systems, whether or not they
> include a PnP BIOS. In fact, a PnP BIOS adds some complications
> because it may already activate some cards so that the drivers
> can find them, and these tools can unconfigure them, or change
> their settings causing all sorts of nasty effects.
>
> I think that you will be able to find a "package" for slackware.
>
>
If that doesn't do what you need it to do, you could set up loadlin to
load linux from the dos partition, put it in autoexec.bat etc...
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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