Re: [Freedos-user] Linux in fat partition.

2009-06-22 Thread Alain Mouette
Puppy Linux is a very good condidate to make a FreeDOS over Linux distribution. This will make FreeDOS much more usefull and probably more interesting. The idea is to boot Linux, then run Dosemu and then FreeDOS as deault front end. Without any X :) An even simpler Linux would be better... jus

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux in fat partition.

2009-06-21 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
There are some other linux distros using "umsdos", this is a filesystem that emulates a unix file system over a dos fat disk. Was a common feature many years ago when the main OS was DOS and the people was interested in to test linux without partition hard disk. I remember my first linux expeienc

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux in fat partition.

2009-06-21 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, kurt godel wrote: > There is a linux that runs in a fat partition: puppy; it runs in a linux > filesystem which is inside a fat, and I have > used it on a ten year old dell with pentium three and 128 meg ram. By the > way, it's small size makes it an excellent > live cd-linux

[Freedos-user] Linux in fat partition.

2009-06-21 Thread kurt godel
There is a linux that runs in a fat partition: puppy; it runs in a linux filesystem which is inside a fat, and I have used it on a ten year old dell with pentium three and 128 meg ram. By the way, it's small size makes it an excellent live cd-linux on the old machines, and it sports an excellent we