Hi BEN.

17-Jun-04 16:48:49, BEN RITCHEY wrote to JASEN BETTS


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

 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
 BR>>> causing you problems mount it as type dos instead of vfat. JB: >
 BR>>> (and then linux won't read or write lfns)

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

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

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

it doesn't like booting NFS mounts...  it dies at odd times....

 -=> Bye <=-

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