Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/09/00:40:26
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Brian Dukes wrote:
> > I'd slow down there yourself Brian... The IFS module system is only so
> >the OS can read extra Filesystems other then FAT.. an example config.sys
> >might have:
>
> <G> or is it!! Dave Pearson was thinking out aloud of say having a
> 100% ext2 OpenDos system .... in which case, like Dave said how is it
> going to know how to read the config.sys file under ext2 until that
> file system has been installed.
It cant. The filesystem upon which CONFIG.SYS resides *MUST* be
built into the kernel. This requires either a kernel
recompilation (with sources), OR an obj distribution so you can
just relink, OR multiple prebuilt kernels on the distribution
media. The latter approach is probably the simplest. Since the
DOS kernel is small, it wouldn't be a big problem. When you
install opendos, it would default to FAT installation (so that
joe blow doesn't get mixed up), however an "Advanced" option
would be in the installer which would let you install an ext2
kernel (or some other FS) instead. Then, later during the
install, you would get a screen asking you which of your other
partitions you would like visible in DOS. These would be added
to %OPENDOSCFG%\FSTAB for later mounting by MOUNT in
AUTOEXEC.BAT.
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