From: coutant@uapu.imag.fr (Fabien Coutant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: What about running Linux from DOS ?
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:52:15 GMT
Reply-To: coutant@uapu.imag.fr (Fabien Coutant)
Distribution: comp

This is BootLinux, a little program that, for those of you
that found ShoeLace too complicated (I'm one of those), will
allow you to boot linux from DOS, and more especially from
a hard disk. To use it, it's preferable to have something
that handles multiple config.sys, like BOOT.SYS for example.

From Linux, you just have to mcopy the file Image, after
making the kernel, to a dos partition (instead of writing it
to a floppy) ,
or you can also use the distributed bootimage-xxxx.Z
uncompressed.

It works fine with a patched Linux 0.12 and my
AMD 386 / 40MHz, 4M ram, 2 IDE 80M+40M HDs.
I also tried it yesterday with Linux 0.95a and it
seems to work.

The .zip file contains the .COM executable and a
small documentation.

This is the second post for this. The first bootlin.zip was
bad, so I hope this one will work... (I checked it and it
worked)

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Fabien COUTANT
Email: coutant@imag.imag.fr