>
> At 04:52 μμ 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> >Richard wrote:
> >
> > >there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN
> > >Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files
> > >inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS.
> > >
> > >Time to set out own standards :)
> >
> >Seconded:-)
> >
> >A raw SMSQ filesystem on CD covers most of our needs except direct
> >interchange with other OS. Since free tools to create & burn QXL.WIN images
> >on other OS's are available, this is not a big issue nowadays.
> >
> >The only thing we lack would be a QDOS/SMSQ program to write a QXL.WIN
> >image onto CDR.
> >
> >For the Q40/Q60 this could be solved by preparing a special Linux ramdisk
> >with only the tools needed for file transfer/CD-writing and a script to
> >simplify things. This package could be used by a SMSQ/E user even without
> >installing or even knowing Linux... only the overhead to boot the Linux
> >kernel.
> >
> >Peter
>
> Ditto. I suppose this also means that Qx0 Linux doesn't clean up the ram
> (kind of a warm restart) when booting up? How would the RAM disk protection
> occur while going from SMS to Linux? And would that work in QDOS Classic?
might work, pretty useless if you ask me.
> And finally.... we're talking about a HUGE ramdisk here if we are to hold
> all the files to be recorded... UNLESS (and I repeat the question) SMSQ
> partitions are fully accessible from Qx0 Linux....
sure they are fully accessible. To burn the CD you need just to copy the
raw partition to the CD writer.
Bye
Richard
