Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-16 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:40:13PM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS > > partition? > > Well, can't say that I hav

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 02:46:09PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > When I got my laptop a few months ago, I set it up to dual-boot > Win98 and Debian. Win98 and Debian exist on seperate partitions, > and the booting is handled through LILO. It was actually quite > easy to do. I know it is easy t

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:38:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Easier to have the dreaded Win98 (Asheron's Call, mmm) and Linux on a > single partition for multi-booting that to juggle different partitions. When I got my laptop a few months ago, I set it up to dual-boot Win98 and Debian. Win9

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> you have to go to the second console (ALT-F1) and do ALT-F2, of course, but you know, don't you? ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> 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, mmm) and Linux on a > single partition for multi-booting that to juggle different part

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS > partition? Well, can't say that I have. Another solution which (I've heard) is workable. Installing on a loopback filesyste

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:45:19PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > is this a "is it possible at all" or "how difficult is it" question? > the answer to the first one is "yes", to the second one "no idea" *g*. > i've made this some years ago with an old redhat. it wasn't funny. an > umsdos /dev d

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS > partition? > is this a "is it possible at all" or "how difficult is it" question? the answer to the first one is "yes", to the second one "no idea" *g*. i've made this some years ago with an old redhat. it wasn't funny

Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS partition? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-

Debian on UMSDOS

1999-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone have any experience with installing Debian on a UMSDOS partition? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+--

Help installing Debian on UMSDOS file system?

1998-08-25 Thread Steve Byrne
I'm trying to install Debian on my wife's laptop that's currently running Windows 95. She's afraid that if I repartition it to make space for Linux, that she won't be able to reinstall all the Win95 software that's on the disk (it's a Compaq, and they don't ship Win95 installation CDs with their b

Fresh Debian on UMSDOS?

1997-03-05 Thread Giuliano Procida
Hello. Brian K Servis wrote: > So the question is how can he install a fresh Debian to his DOS/VFAT > internal using UMSDOS? By using my experimental Debian installation software. I would rather not make this generally available yet as there are some known problems to be ironed out and some of

Re: Fresh Debian on UMSDOS?

1997-03-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
I have been working with a small kernel patch that allows the kernel to use the loop device to mount the root file system contained as an image in a file. You simply copy; rootfs, vmlinuz, loadlin.exe, and linux.bat to /linux on your C: drive; cd /linux and run the batch job. This is a read/write r