Guest raviji7 Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 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] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 :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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 :lol: usb devices were originally intended to be just windows devices. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> wrong, Intel invented USB, and Apple was the first to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 30, 2005 Report Share Posted April 30, 2005 You mean Wintel? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adolfix Posted April 30, 2005 Report Share Posted April 30, 2005 LILO allows you to choose from the boot to choose the OS you want to work with. Bye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 http://slax.linux-live.org/ All scripts and source code are available and can be used to build your own Live CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 You mean Wintel? :lol: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think he means Wintendo ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted May 3, 2005 Report Share Posted May 3, 2005 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> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioEar Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 You mean Wintel? :lol: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think he means Wintendo ;) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No... He meant 'WinTel'.... 'Windows' + 'Intel'... Get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 that's a very odd first post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 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> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ML-8.1 had it as well though I never used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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