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I think EVERY distro should do what SLAX has done! ! ! !

 

I can literally boot to SLAX from my laptop with 3 dos commands.

 

After booting from a dos floppy that automatically loads drivers for my PCMCIA cd-rom drive, generic USB drivers to boot to my USB pen drives and USB CD-ROM drives and drivers to boot to my parallel port microsolutions backpack cd-rom drive. Then all I do is type THREE SIMPLE COMMANDS to run the .bat file on the SLAX CD or from my USB flash/pen drive.

 

1) A:\> D:

2) D:\> cd dos

3) D:\DOS> linux.bat

 

AND SLAX BOOTS !! ! !

 

Why cant ALL Distros place a linux.bat file that lets you boot the Live/Install CD right from DOS using LOADLIN. The loadlin, linux.bat and config file all just add take up ONLY 35KB. You can easily add this to ANY

CD no matter how MAXed out it may be.

 

This is REALLY REALLY REALLY helpful for people you who cannot boot from CD-ROM or USB Pen Drives,

 

And one NEVER has to worry about the the kernel getting too big to fit on a floppy

because ALL you need is ONE boot floppy with DOS and some DOS drivers that gives you access to those non-bootable drives and then you just have to run the LINUX.BAT file - SOOOOO EASY.

 

NO MORE POOR MAN'S INSTALL or using 25 floppies or having EXTRA drivers or doing NET installs ! ! ! ! ! ! !

 

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

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:lol:

 

usb devices were originally intended to be just windows devices. You should be grateful that a bunch of people around the world write code in order to circumvent microsoft's attempt to take over hardware. The install sounds cool. I wonder how it gets around the original os. Does it install from a shell?

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I think EVERY distro should do what SLAX has done! ! ! ! 

<snip>

 

1) A:\> D:

2) D:\> cd dos

3) D:\DOS> linux.bat

 

AND SLAX BOOTS !! ! !

 

Why cant ALL Distros place a linux.bat file that lets you boot the Live/Install CD right from DOS using LOADLIN.  The loadlin, linux.bat and config file all just add take up ONLY 35KB.  You can easily add this to ANY

CD no matter how MAXed out it may be.

 

<snip>

 

i think i remember mandrake having this steps in mdk8.0 documentation (the one that pops out when you insert the installer while running under windows and cd auto-play is enabled), i dont know if the instructions are still there for recent releases since i just pop them in and do a non-windows install or whatever that is called.

 

ciao!

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I think EVERY distro should do what SLAX has done! ! ! ! 

<snip>

 

1) A:\> D:

2) D:\> cd dos

3) D:\DOS> linux.bat

 

AND SLAX BOOTS !! ! !

 

Why cant ALL Distros place a linux.bat file that lets you boot the Live/Install CD right from DOS using LOADLIN.  The loadlin, linux.bat and config file all just add take up ONLY 35KB.  You can easily add this to ANY

CD no matter how MAXed out it may be.

 

<snip>

 

i think i remember mandrake having this steps in mdk8.0 documentation (the one that pops out when you insert the installer while running under windows and cd auto-play is enabled), i dont know if the instructions are still there for recent releases since i just pop them in and do a non-windows install or whatever that is called.

 

ciao!

 

ML-8.1 had it as well though I never used it.

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