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"Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:66b3d054-4b29-497b-aea5-dcbae71865d3 AT s20g2000yqh DOT googlegroups DOT com...
> > >
> > > You're using Win98 and can boot to DOS mode, so just unzip BasicLinux
> > > on top of your FAT partition. It's only 20 MB unpacked, so it's not
> > > much (only 4 MB or so .ZIP'd).
> >
> > Loop on DOS? I thought there was only one that did that... ZipSlack?
>
> ZipSlack uses kernel 2.4.x with UMSDOS. BasicLinux uses 2.2.x. No
> maintainer was available, so 2.6.x doesn't support UMSDOS at all.

Maybe it was LoopLinux (?).  IIRC, the problem, for me, was while it had a
loopback FS on DOS, it couldn't mount VFAT, only UMSDOS.

It seems there is a newer one called RIP Linux, but I don't think it's a
loopback system.

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

Further down the page:
"If you want to install and boot Linux on a Windows XP/Vista system, read
the readme below. "  (README link is bad, but .exe is available.)

Interesting, I have RIPLinux CD, but I can't check to see if it's the
same...  (need a cable...).

Ok, I dl'd BasicLinux.


RP