MS-Dos
Forum: User Feedback
Topic: MS-Dos
started by: lilfmjr
Posted by lilfmjr on Dec. 27 2005,18:57
Is there any way to boot DSL from ms-dos or in ms-dos mode?
Posted by TTK=Teobromina_Tool_Kit on Dec. 28 2005,07:31
I do not think so. It is possible to boot it from windows, by means of a virtual machine, for instance: qemu or vmware.
Posted by monkymind on Dec. 28 2005,11:46
| 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
The wiki would be a good place to start looking
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....n&go=Go >
Cheers
rob
Posted by lilfmjr on Dec. 28 2005,21:21
I 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.
Posted by BegLinux on Dec. 31 2005,03:36
| 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...
HTH
Daniel
Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 31 2005,04:21
that's normal behavior. Try adding a directory to /cdrom and changing the ownership of that directory to dsl.staff....it may allow you to save files to that directory as dslI don't know if it will work on a fat partition though
Posted by TTK=Teobromina_Tool_Kit on Dec. 31 2005,14:21
OK, you mean to boot DSL from DOS, but not within DOS (as I understood 
when I posted my answer about qemu and VMWare).But What is the purpose of booting from DOS? Perhaps to overcome the problem whit some mainboard that do not support booting from a CD?
Regards.
*JT.