* An ongoing debate between Jasen Betts and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 BR>> Due to hardware limitations, I am using Mandrake-Linux v7.1
 BR>> (kernel 2.2x). It employs a standard mount for DOS partitions as
 BR>> vfat fs (I will eventually HAVE to use mtools once I have DOSEmu
 BR>> running to my satisfaction) based on fstab.
 JB: > if lfns are causing you problems mount it as type dos instead of vfat.
 JB: > (and then linux won't read or write lfns)

Ok, I wondered about that  and will investigate. :-)

 JB: > dosemu will run on mounted drives by using lredir (doesn't work with
 JB: > freedos) it's actually capable of bootsing ms-dos off a linux
 JB: > partition (or off a mounted dos hard disk) even though it can't see
 JB: > the boot sector. (this feature may be experimental, I've not seen it
 JB: > in the documentation, I just put /mnt/dos in there instead of
 JB: > /dev/hda1 and it worked!)

It was around in 0.98 then they took it out. Even then it had a warning that
partition boots were unreliable for some reason . Works fine here, too.

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