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Archive of the original website of the distribution: [0] This takes advantage of the UMSDOS filesystem driver [1]: > All the Linux files will be installed i

Archive of the original website of the distribution: [0] This takes advantage of the UMSDOS filesystem driver [1]: > All the Linux files will be installed in a normal FAT directory (usually c:\LINUX). This directory is then mounted by UMSDOS as the root linux directory. All the extra file attributes (long names, permissions) are stored in a separate file (--linux-.---) in the respective directory." I remember using ZipSlack [2], a version of Slackware using UMSDOS that could fit on a Zip disk. It could also be booted from the Zip. There was also DragonLinux [3] which used a loopback file system requiring only a single file containing the image of the native Linux file system. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/19991128183359/http://winlinux.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991128183359/http://winlinux.n... [1] https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/UMSDOS https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/UMSDOS [2] http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20010223172303/http://www.dragonlinux.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20010223172303/http://www.dragon...

microtonal 3y ago
In the 90ies Linux could be the guest on MS-DOS/Windows' native filesystem (UMSDOS). In the 20ies, Windows can be the guest on one of Linux' native filesystems (BTRFS). https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ Also, semi-related, over twenty years ago you could run Windows 9x on Linux extremely fast without a VM: https://web.archive.org/web/20001017153413/http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin/index.php https://web.archive.org/web/20001017153413/http://www.netrav... The technology was based on SCO Merge and required a small kernel patch. https://github.com/xiphux/xx-sources/blob/0d28a7337aeef2d46d22c3f8837d65bc792ae7a6/2.6.7-xx4/broken-out/p00198_Kernel-Win4Lin3-2.6.6.patch#L28 https://github.com/xiphux/xx-sources/blob/0d28a7337aeef2d46d...
alophawen 3y ago
IIRC early versions of Ubuntu allowed to be installed in C:\Ubuntu
- easton 3y ago
  You can still do it, albeit not officially supported: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
lagniappe 3y ago
I ran zipslack!

microtonal 3y ago

In the 90ies Linux could be the guest on MS-DOS/Windows' native filesystem (UMSDOS). In the 20ies, Windows can be the guest on one of Linux' native filesystems (BTRFS). https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ Also, semi-related, over twenty years ago you could run Windows 9x on Linux extremely fast without a VM: https://web.archive.org/web/20001017153413/http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin/index.php https://web.archive.org/web/20001017153413/http://www.netrav... The technology was based on SCO Merge and required a small kernel patch. https://github.com/xiphux/xx-sources/blob/0d28a7337aeef2d46d22c3f8837d65bc792ae7a6/2.6.7-xx4/broken-out/p00198_Kernel-Win4Lin3-2.6.6.patch#L28 https://github.com/xiphux/xx-sources/blob/0d28a7337aeef2d46d...

alophawen 3y ago

IIRC early versions of Ubuntu allowed to be installed in C:\Ubuntu

easton 3y ago
You can still do it, albeit not officially supported: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi

lagniappe 3y ago

I ran zipslack!