Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/04/17/14:22:25
Nate Eldredge wrote:
> [Becoming OT]
>
> Marvin G Wise Jr wrote:
> >
> > > There is only one danger: You must read the instructions for
> > > partitioning VERY CAREFULLY. You can lose everything you have
> > > if you don't do what it says. I didn't lose a byte. FIPS is good.
> >
> > repartitioning of hard drives, what a pain....isn't there a way to setup a
> > hard drive without having to redo everything? would it be possible, if
> > someone made a new OS, to allow for compatibility with various file/disk
> > formats, that way it could be installed without the hassle of
> > repartitioning?
>
> Some Linux distributions support UMSDOS, which is a Real File System
> hacked on top of MSDOS/FAT (using a magic file to store the stuff
> (symlinks, permissions, long names, etc) that can't be represented by
> MSDOS). This way you can drop the Linux stuff in a directory of your
> DOS drive. However, it's probably not a great idea for the long term;
> performance isn't the best, and some of the restrictions of MSDOS show
> through. It's fine if you want to experiment, though.
>
RedHat 5.2 also has support for VFAT (which allows LFNs, while UMSDOS doesn't),
though it still requires that it be installed on a Linux partition. VFAT support
just allows it to access Win9X partitions.
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