> The latter. I know I can get Slackware onto UMSDOS fairly easy as well as > a few others (Monkey Linux comes to mind). I much prefer Debian however. > Easier to have the dreaded Win98 (Asheron's Call, mmmmmmm) and Linux on a > single partition for multi-booting that to juggle different partitions. > ok ... i don't know, if the boot floppies offer the "install on umsdos" option. i guess no, otherwise you probably would not ask. so you would have to go that way (only my ideas, i didn't try that): make a directory c:\linux boot linux. load the umsdos fs driver module. define /dev/hda1 as your / partition; set the type to umsdos; mount it (all this _should_ be possible in the setup program - if not, you have to go to the second console (ALT-F1) and do "mount -t umsdos /dev/hda1 /target"). if everything works as expected, you should be able to to install lunux now (i hope, the partition does not require a initial setup - if it does, you have a problem). now comes the hard part: you need a kernel with umsdos support compiled in. i don't think, you will find that in the standard kernels. would be nice, if somebody could tell a place to get such thing, otherwise i can compile a kernel for you (you would have to tell me something about your hardware).
final notes: 1) these are only thoughts! they may be total bullshit! 2) it is no good idea to install linux and windoze on one partition. it is a performance (umsdos is slow by nature, if it was not drastically improved since the 2.0.0 kernel *g*) and security issue (a stupid windows virus might delete all your linux files, you have no protection while in windoze). however ... good luck! -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
