Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/11/11:44:49
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
>
> > > If you'd like, I'd be more than happy to send you the INFO-SHEET,
> > As long as it's short.
> > void main()
> > {
> > if (sizeof(infosheet) < 10000)
> > email(infosheet);
> > }
>
> Here you go. (see attachment)
int main()
{
pipe(email(attachment,DL),bustdocs(gzip(&DL)))
}
> > > > private partition for booting purposes, then after booting, it calls the
> > > Simple, because a hard disk is limited to 4 partitions, and you'd
> > Right, I know, but the advantage would be that the OS _is_ independant
> Well, the shell isn't part of the OS, it is just a utility just
True, it should let the user to transparently access the FS via the OS.
> module. I'm not willing to give up an extra partition just to
> boot an OS. DOS boots very easily now, and so does Linux. By
Personally, I would, (my preference), and I'd like to be able to call the
next partition 'C' rather than go through my some 2000 program and locate
every reference to drive C and change it to D.
> filesystem it is on because the BR knows how to boot THAT
> filesystem. Then the kernel can mount filesystems that it has
Correction, the BR knows how to locate the files needed to boot that
filesystem, otherwise it's dumber than, well, <flamedeletion>.
> > > personally that I'll want a TOTALLY 100% ext2 system when ext2
> > Your preference.
> And anyone else who has ever used ext2 as well. What FS do you
> prefer? The only viable candidates IMO are ext2, HPFS, and NTFS.
Ok, the truth pops out. I know FAT. I think I understand HPFS, though
it's been years since I read anything on that, (MAC, right?). The only
other FS which I know of but don't remember the name was a linked sector
list FS where each 512 byte sector had 500 bytes reserved for data, and
the 12 bytes were used for indexing to the next sector with a bit table
used to indicate unused sectors. The bootblock for this filesystem
consisted of the first several blocks as being reserved, they did not
conform to the filesystem. This was so the bootloader just had to copy
x-number of sectors to y-location in memory and transfer control.
I would love to be able to read up on other types of FS's.
> > > mount, and HOW they should be mounted (R/W, RO). This is most
> > This could also be established through a 'mount proceedure table'.
> Yes, I agree, it is called FSTAB, and is mounted from
> AUTOEXEC.BAT by the MOUNT /A command.
Cool, once mounted as such, can you REMOUNT to different specs?
> > Now give me a think tank..... It would take very smart piece of
Didn't catch the irony, look at W(%, it's supposed to be idiot proof.
> code manually on the keyboard every time the computer reboots!
S-100 Boot! Toggle switches!
> A lot of viruses directly access the HD controller and can write
Hmmm, forgot, this would only prevent a certain percentage.
> screwing around with it. Let's let Fprot handle the viruses, and
> let the MBR boot DOS directly.
> DOS? The whole point of making installable file systems in DOS
> is to allow you to read/write to the filesystems of OTHER
I still wanna run Linux directly from DOS! ;]
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