I think that debian should include umsdos support. Here's what's needed:
(1) a kernel with umsdos support compiled in (2) the utility umssync Also, umsdos pulls a stunt for the root partition -- for this case the subdirectory that, under the msdos file system, would be named "linux" is recast as the root file system. Other contents of the msdos filesystem's root are recast as the contents of the "DOS" -- the dinstall script would need to deal with this (I got around this by fudging around with a soft link and editting /etc/mtab). Also, fsck doesn't currently do anything useful on a umsdos file system. I've not decided what the best mechanism should be for dealing with this. umssync could be used as a better-than-nothing option (though it's only really useful for when someone has mucked around in the linux area of the file system from under some other operating system). Finally, something like loadlinx.exe would probably be a useful auxillary. -- Raul
