Is there any way to boot DSL from ms-dos or in ms-dos mode?I do not think so. It is possible to boot it from windows, by means of a virtual machine, for instance: qemu or vmware.
Quote (lilfmjr @ Dec. 28 2005,03:57)
Is there any way to boot DSL from ms-dos or in ms-dos mode?
Yes- loadlin! Unfortunately it's been so long since I've used it - I can't remember anything about it but its name
Cheers robI found the the site for loadlin but i cant use it as a zip file. I was hoping if there was a way to run qemu or some other program like it in dos.
Quote (lilfmjr @ Dec. 27 2005,13:57)
Is there any way to boot DSL from ms-dos or in ms-dos mode?
YES ! I am running DSL on an old Pentium 133 notebook with MS-DOS/MS-Win95. I copied the whole DSL CD on the HD, resulting into 2 directories: \boot and \KNOPPIX
Then I copied loadlin.exe on the HD, and created the following loadlin.cfg file: ------- loadlin.cfg ------------------ \boot\isolinux\linux24 ramdisk_size=100000 initrd=\boot\isolinux\minirt24.gz root=/dev/ram rw init=/etc/init vga=xvesa lang=fr apm=power-off nousb noagp nofirewire #noapm #nomce keyboard=be-latin1 ---------------------------------- I had to start in DOS with a minimum config.sys. C:\loadlin @loadlin.cfg <Enter>
============= When you are satisfied with your configuration, save it to the HD: DSLPanel->Backup/Restore->Device: hd?? [Backup]
Next time you boot, DSL will see the saved file, and restore your configuration without asking questions...
NOTE: Curiously, the DOS boot HD is under /cdrom, read only. So, in order to be able to write on it, I added: sudo mount /cdrom -o remount,rw in: .bash_profile and: /home/dsl/.bash_profile in: filetool.lst
I don't know how to change the owner or the permission of /cdrom, so I have to 'sudo' all saves to it...
