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Did you run Slackware from DOS or did you install it properly with a bootloader?
by borissk 4y ago
Did you run Slackware from DOS or did you install it properly with a bootloader?
- weikju 4y agoProperly ran it with LILO as the boot loader. Shortly later the "boot from DOS" things started cropping up but I still preferred running them properly.
- fmakunbound 4y agoI hand totally forgotten about that. Wasn’t it called dosfs? It put metadata in files that would show up in DOS when you rebooted.
- LocalH 4y agoloadlin was the tool that would boot the kernel (including initrd) from a running DOS system. You might be thinking of umsdos? IIRC, that's the tool that would allow you to actually run Linux from a FAT partition (likely FAT16).
- Narishma 4y agoI remember having to boot my first distro from DOS because my sound card (a weird thing that was a combination of modem and sound card) didn't have Linux drivers. I would first load the DOS drivers, then boot Linux from DOS and it would then recognize it as a Sound Blaster.