John Lines wrote: > Does anyone have experience of running Debian as a UMSDOS system
I'm cc'ing this to a friend who runs 3 debian systems over top of umsdos. I wouldn't reccommend it, but if you have to do it, maybe he can help you. > - I have > used a Slakware based system built on UMSDOS as a gentle introduction to > Linux for people who dont like the idea of partitioning their hard disks, > just to try Linux. > > They pull a big tar file off the network, and a copy of gnu tar for DOS, > untar it and use Bootlin to reboot into Linux, where they automatically pick > up their IP address etc through BOOTP and they can then install anything > outside the base system via an NFS mounted Slakware distribution. > > The whole process takes about 10 minutes and they can get rid of Linux from > Windows file manager very quickly if they want. (Very few people do get rid > of it, but it is much easier to persuade someone to try it if they know they > can get back to where they started very easily.) > > > John Lines > > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
