From: Michele Andreoli (andreoli@pisoft.it)
Date: Sun Mar 21 1999 - 13:11:09 CET
Hello!
I implemented for next release a new installation path: the direct
DOS->UMSDOS installation, skipping the floppy's creation phase.
I don't like them, sure, because it can confuse some user, corrupting
the primary floppy/transportable nature of muLinux. A floppy muLinux
can clone itself in UMSDOS, but a UMSDOS muLinux can't clone itself
into floppies.
Anyway, some new user, with machine without floppy drive or old floppy
controller, asked me for this feature.
Actually, the path are:
/etc/rc.dosinstall --->
|-----> /etc/rc.prep-floppy
|-----> /etc/rc.prep-umsdos
This path is actived with INFO=dosinstall (loadlin boot prompt parameter,
in install.bat) and DOS user is prompted for a choice.
In any case, you say, this stuff can be overriden with the init= switch,
bringing Linux is some other unconfigured state. Ex:
c:> loadlin mulinuz initrd=root.gz init=/etc/rc.1
put muLinux at level ONE (maintenance level).
<ITALIAN alt="fratelli del mediterraneo" >
Con la prossima versione di muLinux, si potra' installare dal DOS
direttamente in c:\linux, senza fare preliminarmente i floppy.
Di questa possibilita' si era parlato tempo fa sulla lista e non c'e'
un'autentica ragione per non implementarla, eccetto una certa
incongruenza "filosofica".
</ITALIAN>
Ciao,
Michele
-- Mi sarebbe piaciuto concludere con un'affermazione positiva, ma non me ne vengono in mente. Vanno bene due negative? -- Woody Allen
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