this arrived earlly on the 15th. so you may be past this by now!
The dos linux system supports RPMs and if you are using a "Red Hat like"
kernal configuration red hat rpms work.. so twould be possible to install
the linux system on the dos file structure as a loop file. would mean
shrinking the footprint of dos / windows to the minimum, and creating a loop
(img) file large enough to put what you need on it. you could probably get
71 megabytes or more.
(((oops))) maybe what you said was that it requires an extra driver for
linux to access the firm drive at all?? that would mean the ramdisk mini
would work, but the full loop system would freeze when going to the
kernel... so that driver would have to be internal to the kernal... then
the loop system would work. It may work to run the loop system off the zip
disk in order to test the drivers. ??
I'm still interested in what / how it works.
brian :) ;)
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>>once the ramdisk system could mount the zip drive, then you can run fdisk
>> on the 72 meg drive and create the linux filesystem and swap partitions and
>> then move the linux image over.
>> THe scary part of this is that if it doesn't boot thereafter I don't know
>> how to get it back up again.......
>>
>I've finally managed to do this. It was easier than I thought. Just
>putting a kernel with support for the ZIP drive, and using loadlin from
>DOS did the trick!
>
>> is this a real hard drive, or is one of those solid state drives that
>> emulates a DOS file system? If it's one of the latter I suggest you run
>> the linux as a loop system residing on the DOS file system. There is a
>> little penalty in performance, but nothing as bad as having to rewrite the
>> file system emulation software roms... to get linux to come up all you have
>> to do is use autoexec.bat to call loadline linux loader, it works slick.
>>
>It's a DiskOnChip (solid state). but I've managed to find the Linux MTD
>project (http://www.infradead.org), where they're working on drivers for
>these disks. I'm right now going to do the first test with these
>drivers.
>
>And as you said, I don't know neither how to get this system back again
>if it fails.
>
>>
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