We should consider adding umsdos support to Debian 1.0. Alot of people ask about it. We shouldn't present umsdos as an alternative to installing Debian "for real", but we could at least give our users the option of using it.
(It might also be useful as a "try it before you install it for real" feature.) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 13:07:40 +0200 From: Juhana K Kouhia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian+umsdos Hi. I'm looking for solutions to the problem of getting TeX system working easily in students home computers. One solution is to use Linux with X. Installation of Debian should be easy as possible, that is, without need to repartition the hard disk --- umsdos file system is fine for that. Would you please make boot and root diskettes for installing Debian entirely with umsdos system? The system can be the same as current Debian but all Linux files on hard disk should be as umsdos -- diskettes may be used with ext2 or msdos or whatever file systems. The swap should be a swapfile, not a partition. What you think about this? I think this is very fine solution to the problem that students don't know or want to repartition their hard disks. Other solutions are 'emtex' or such for msdos, but I see many advantages in Linux if only students have big enough hard disk. Juhana Kouhia