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Topic: MS-Dos, Bootin

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lilfmjr

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Posted: Dec. 27 2005,18:57

Is there any way to boot DSL from ms-dos or in ms-dos mode?

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Posted: 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.

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monkymind

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Posted: 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

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Posted: 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.

BegLinux

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Posted: 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>

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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

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