According to Ami Ganguli:
>
> Actually, if you've already got DOS running on your pc, it should be
> possible to put in the CD and run a "setup.exe" without ever making a
> boot floppy.
>
MS-DOS may not be installed on every system running Linux. I just
recently installed an e-mail server with Debian Linux that does not
require a DOS partition. In fact, the ideal would be to have
applications available such that DOS or Win95 partitions are not
required. IMHO we should continue to support DOS/FAT and
Win95/VFAT file systems w/o requiring them for Debian
installation.
> I know it's against most of our philosophies to support the use of DOS in
> any capacity, but when Caldera releases OpenDOS this could provide a really
> nice, fast way to install the system and it would still be free. As it
> stands now, we still need DOS to use "rawrite.exe" anyway.
>
rawrite.exe is not necessary. You can use dd from an existing
Linux/unix system.
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